Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Ngamring in China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 105 km N of Ngamring, China (65 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 87.368 East, latitude 30.1682 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000jgar. Event ids that are associated: us1000jgar. The temblor was reported at 08:45:51 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/19 / 2019-03-06 00:45:51 / March 6, 2019 @ 12:45 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 105 km N of Ngamring, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	87.368° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.1682° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105km N of Ngamring, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-06 00:45:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-18 03:37:24	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	259	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	3.295	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us1000jgar	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jgar	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jgar,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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