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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Guankou in China


Earthquake location 30.9434S, 103.4717WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guankou in China on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:37:23 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d1hf. Id of event: us1000d1hf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.4717 East, latitude 30.9434 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/18 / 2018-02-27 14:37:23 / February 27, 2018 @ 2:37 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Chengdu (c. 7 415 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Deyang (c. 152 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tianpeng (c. 60 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Linqiong (c. 55 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Deyang, Chengdu, Linqiong (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km WSW of Guankou, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.4717° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9434° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WSW of Guankou, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-27 14:37:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-12 13:16:40 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 5.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us1000d1hf Id of event.
Event Code 1000d1hf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d1hf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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