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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Xinmian in China


Earthquake location 29.3409S, 102.385WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Xinmian in China on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:20 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 08:46:20 / May 16, 2018 @ 8:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.56 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 102.385° East, 29.3409° North, depth 72.56 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e67v. Id of event: us1000e67v.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Kangding (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kangding.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 have been detected nearby.

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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: 11 km N of Xinmian, 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 102.385° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.3409° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km N of Xinmian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-16 08:46:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 09:11:50 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 8.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us1000e67v Id of event.
Event Code 1000e67v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e67v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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