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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Guiyang in China


Earthquake location 25.9052S, 106.6607WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Guiyang in China. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/24 / 2024-06-23 23:48:35 / June 23, 2024 @ 11:48 pm UTC/GMT. 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, 106.6607° East, 25.9052° North. The temblor was reported at 23:48:35 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mu6p. Unique identifier: us7000mu6p. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Xiaoweizhai, Anshun, Guiyang. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Guiyang (c. 1 171 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Anshun (c. 351 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Xiaoweizhai (c. 58 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 75 km S of Guiyang, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.6607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.9052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km S of Guiyang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-23 23:48:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-24 00:30:41 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 284 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us7000mu6p Id of event.
Event Code 7000mu6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mu6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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