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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Wenping in China


Earthquake location 27.015S, 103.376WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Wenping in China on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/20 / 2020-02-06 20:45:14 / February 6, 2020 @ 8:45 pm. Id of earthquake: us70007k9n. Event ids that are associated: us70007k9n. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:45:14 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 103.376° East, 27.015° North, depth 32.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.63 km (20 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Weining (c. 56 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Weining, Zhaotong (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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: 24 km SW of Wenping, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.376° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of Wenping, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-06 20:45:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-06 21:32:37 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 259 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 6.281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us70007k9n Id of event.
Event Code 70007k9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007k9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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