Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Domartang in China

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 47 km SSE of Domartang, China (29 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.61 km (25 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:46:39 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 95.0448 East, latitude 30.5084 North, depth = 39.61 km. 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: 12/08/17 / 2017-08-12 17:46:39 / August 12, 2017 @ 5:46 pm. Unique identifier: us2000a8u0. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a8u0.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 47 km SSE of Domartang, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	95.0448° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.5084° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km SSE of Domartang, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-12 17:46:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-02 18:44:05	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	271	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	3.488	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	us2000a8u0	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a8u0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a8u0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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