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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Xiasi in China


Earthquake location 32.3468S, 105.5206WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Xiasi in China on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.68 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009wtv. Unique identifier: us20009wtv. Exact location of event, depth 14.68 km, 105.5206° East, 32.3468° North. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:56:01 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/17 / 2017-07-16 22:56:01 / July 16, 2017 @ 10:56 pm.

The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Guangyuan (c. 213 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Langzhong (c. 60 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jiangyou, Langzhong, Guangyuan. Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km N of Xiasi, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 105.5206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Xiasi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-16 22:56:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-16 23:33:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 12.22 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20009wtv Id of event.
Event Code 20009wtv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009wtv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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