Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 19 km WNW of Taizhou, China

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Taizhou in China on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 119.7165° East, 32.569° North, depth 9.189 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mzke. Id of event: us7000mzke. The temblor was picked up at 08:07:19 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 08:07:19 / July 8, 2024 @ 8:07 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.189 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Changzhou (c. 949 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Zhenjiang (c. 632 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Taizhou (c. 612 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Yangzhou (c. 539 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Zhenzhou (c. 176 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Dongtai (c. 111 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Changzhou, Jiangyin, Baoying.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 occurred 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. 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: 19 km WNW of Taizhou, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.7165° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.569° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.189 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km WNW of Taizhou, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-08 08:07:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 04:57:46	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	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	7.368	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	us7000mzke	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mzke	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mzke,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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