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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Changji in China


Earthquake location 43.757S, 86.7432WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Changji in China on Saturday. Event id: us1000dy11. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dy11. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 86.7432° East, 43.757° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 16:45:47 / May 4, 2018 @ 4:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:45:47 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Shihezi (c. 572 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shihezi, Ürümqi, Yan’an Beilu. Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km WSW of Changji, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.7432° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km WSW of Changji, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-04 16:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 18:09:23 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 340 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 4.369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us1000dy11 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dy11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dy11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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