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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Simao in China


Earthquake location 22.7312S, 101.1561WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Simao in China. The temblor was detected at 15:04:39 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.689 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000n89f. Event ids that are associated: us7000n89f. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 101.1561 East, latitude 22.7312 North, depth = 13.689 km. Global time and date of event 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 15:04:39 / August 20, 2024 @ 3:04 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Jinghong (c. 62 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jinghong.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 was reported 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: 19 km ESE of Simao, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.1561° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.7312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.689 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km ESE of Simao, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-20 15:04:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-20 17:12:03 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 340 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 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 us7000n89f Id of event.
Event Code 7000n89f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n89f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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