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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Linqiong in China


Earthquake location 30.405S, 103.4208WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Linqiong in China on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 103.4208° East, 30.405° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:19:46 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000fy3v. Unique identifier: us2000fy3v. Global time and date of event 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 05:19:46 / July 6, 2018 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Chengdu (c. 7 415 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tianpeng (c. 60 800 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Linqiong (c. 55 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tianpeng, Chengdu, Linqiong (min 5000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 4 km WSW of Linqiong, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.4208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW of Linqiong, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-06 05:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-22 07:22:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 271 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 5.251 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us2000fy3v Id of event.
Event Code 2000fy3v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fy3v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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