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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Changning in China

Posted by admin on July 3, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.442S, 104.977WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Changning in China. The temblor was detected at 12:26:54 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 104.977 East, latitude 28.442 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/19 / 2019-07-03 04:26:54 / July 3, 2019 @ 4:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000492k. Event ids that are associated: us7000492k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zigong, Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km SSE of Changning, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.977° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE of Changning, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-03 04:26:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-03 04:48:15 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 369 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 7.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000492k Id of event.
Event Code 7000492k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000492k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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