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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 20 km ESE of Macau, Macao


Earthquake location 22.1623S, 113.7365WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Macau in Macao on Sunday. Event id: us70006v48. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006v48. Exact location of event, longitude 113.7365 East, latitude 22.1623 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:55:36 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/20 / 2020-01-04 22:55:36 / January 4, 2020 @ 10:55 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Shenzhen (c. 10 358 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hong Kong (c. 7 012 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kowloon (c. 2 019 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Jiangmen (c. 532 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Macau (c. 520 400 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Zhuhai (c. 501 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jiangmen, Xinhui, Humen (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop), Hong Kong (c. 6 899 000 pop), Macao (c. 449 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 20 km ESE of Macau, Macao.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.7365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.1623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE of Macau, Macao Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-04 22:55:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 02:06:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 224 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 0.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006v48 Id of event.
Event Code 70006v48 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006v48, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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