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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Yongning in China


Earthquake location 28.0929S, 100.4502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Yongning in China on Monday. Id of earthquake: us6000n18x. Event ids that are associated: us6000n18x. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 100.4502° East, 28.0929° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:37:11 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/05/24 / 2024-05-27 10:37:11 / May 27, 2024 @ 10:37 am.

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Shangri-La (c. 130 000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shangri-La (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 35 km NW of Yongning, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.4502° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.0929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km NW of Yongning, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-27 10:37:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-27 10:57:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us6000n18x Id of event.
Event Code 6000n18x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n18x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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