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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Xinling in China


Earthquake location 31.0467S, 110.5166WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Xinling in China. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000hdca. Event ids that are associated: us1000hdca. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 110.5166° East, 31.0467° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/10/18 / 2018-10-11 07:06:33 / October 11, 2018 @ 7:06 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:06:33 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yichang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Yichang (c. 476 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km E of Xinling, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.5166° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km E of Xinling, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-11 07:06:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 09:03:20 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 312 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 1.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us1000hdca Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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