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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 3 km ENE of Zhaoyu, China


Earthquake location 37.3686S, 112.3503WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Zhaoyu in China on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 112.3503 East, latitude 37.3686 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:21:24 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007bgu. Unique identifier: us60007bgu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 14:21:24 / January 6, 2020 @ 2:21 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taiyuan, Jiexiu, Yuci. Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Taiyuan (c. 3 426 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yuci (c. 235 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Jiexiu (c. 77 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Gutao (c. 42 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km ENE of Zhaoyu, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 112.3503° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ENE of Zhaoyu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-06 14:21:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-22 14:37:53 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 271 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 3.989 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us60007bgu Id of event.
Event Code 60007bgu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bgu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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