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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Xincheng Chengguanzhen in China


Earthquake location 23.8563S, 108.6259WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Xincheng Chengguanzhen in China on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a45n. Unique identifier: us2000a45n. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 108.6259° East, 23.8563° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 16:33:46 / July 30, 2017 @ 4:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:33:46 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Luxu (c. 70 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Laibin (c. 59 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luxu, Laibin (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km S of Xincheng Chengguanzhen, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.6259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S of Xincheng Chengguanzhen, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-30 16:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-14 15:08:01 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 298 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 4.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us2000a45n Id of event.
Event Code 2000a45n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a45n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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