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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Zhanhe in China


Earthquake location 26.838S, 100.8556WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Zhanhe in China on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 08:19:08 / June 26, 2024 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n88d. Id of event: us6000n88d. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:19:08 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.8556 East, latitude 26.838 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dadukou, Lijiang. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Lijiang (c. 1 137 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Dadukou (c. 461 500 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km WSW of Zhanhe, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.8556° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Zhanhe, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-26 08:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-26 08:43:00 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000n88d Id of event.
Event Code 6000n88d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n88d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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