Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Arzak in China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 117 km ENE of Arzak, China (73 miles). 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 9.12 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 77.4711 East, latitude 39.88 North, depth = 9.12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 04:59:00 / December 5, 2019 @ 4:59 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us60006ma1. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006ma1. The temblor was reported at 12:59:00 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 117 km ENE of Arzak, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	77.4711° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.88° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	117km ENE of Arzak, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-05 04:59:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-24 00:22:41	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	312	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	1.864	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us60006ma1	Id of event.
Event Code	60006ma1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006ma1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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