Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 24 km SSE of Long’an, China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Long’an in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 104.6266 East, latitude 32.2093 North, depth = 12.49 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000fqsd. Unique identifier: us2000fqsd. The temblor was reported at 08:42:19 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.49 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/18 / 2018-06-29 00:42:19 / June 29, 2018 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mianyang, Jiangyou (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Mianyang (c. 264 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

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 five 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 24 km SSE of Long’an, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	104.6266° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.2093° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SSE of Long'an, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-29 00:42:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-29 01:11:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	355	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	10.86	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us2000fqsd	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fqsd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fqsd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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