Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Pubu in China

Earthquake location 33.1592S, 88.8265W A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 182 km NNW of Pubu, China (113 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/18 / 2018-08-19 08:18:23 / August 19, 2018 @ 8:18 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.92 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 16:18:23 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 88.8265 East, latitude 33.1592 North, depth = 19.92 km. Event id: us1000gd55. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gd55. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place		Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	1970-01-01 00:00:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	1970-01-01 00:00:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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		Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami		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		A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network		The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources		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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type		The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type		Type of seismic event.
Event ID		Id of event.
Event Code		An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS		A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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