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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 182 km NNW of Pubu, China


Earthquake location 33.1592S, 88.8265WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 182 km NNW of Pubu, China (113 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 88.8265 East, latitude 33.1592 North, depth = 19.92 km. Global time and date of event 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 08:18:23 / August 19, 2018 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:18:23 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). 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 19.92 km (12 miles). Event id: us1000gd55. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gd55.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 182 km NNW of Pubu, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 88.8265° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.1592° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km NNW of Pubu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-19 08:18:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-19 08:47:22 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 5.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us1000gd55 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gd55 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gd55, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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