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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Yanling in China

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Yanling in China. The temblor was reported at 07:02:03 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000gbgk. Event ids that are associated: us2000gbgk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 104.5425° East, latitude 29.5396° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/18 / 2018-07-22 23:02:03 / July 22, 2018 @ 11:02 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Leshan, Yanjiang (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Leshan (c. 154 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Chonglong (c. 58 400 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 11 km W of Yanling, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	104.5425° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.5396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km W of Yanling, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-22 23:02:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-22 23:43:31	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	354	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	4.361	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us2000gbgk	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gbgk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gbgk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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