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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 9 km ESE of Xiluodu, China


Earthquake location 28.1554S, 103.6621WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Xiluodu in China. 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 37.67 km (23 miles). Global time and date of event 15/05/19 / 2019-05-15 20:33:37 / May 15, 2019 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: usd0009i8f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: usd0009i8f. Exact location of earthquake, 103.6621° East, 28.1554° North, depth 37.67 km. The temblor was reported at 04:33:37 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhaotong (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km ESE of Xiluodu, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.6621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.1554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE of Xiluodu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-15 20:33:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-15 20:54:57 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 7.776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 usd0009i8f Id of event.
Event Code d0009i8f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd0009i8f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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