Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Changning in China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Changning in China. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/19 / 2019-08-12 22:31:55 / August 12, 2019 @ 10:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us600054ap. Unique identifier: us600054ap. The temblor was reported at 06:31:55 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 104.9599° East, 28.4489° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SSE of Changning, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	104.9599° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	28.4489° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2019-08-12 22:31:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-12 23:10:14	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	340	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	7.156	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us600054ap	Id of event.
Event Code	600054ap	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600054ap,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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