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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Yantan in China


Earthquake location 29.2806S, 104.9294WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Yantan in China. The temblor was reported at 00:38:29 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 104.9294 East, latitude 29.2806 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000jc01. Event ids that are associated: us2000jc01. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/19 / 2019-01-19 16:38:29 / January 19, 2019 @ 4:38 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Yongchuan (c. 94 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Xunchang, Yongchuan, Luocheng. Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km E of Yantan, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.9294° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E of Yantan, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-19 16:38:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-11 18:13:15 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 298 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 4.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us2000jc01 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jc01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jc01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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