Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Hefei in China


Earthquake location 31.9132S, 117.6256WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Hefei in China. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nsvh. Unique identifier: us6000nsvh. Global time and date of event 18/09/24 / 2024-09-18 12:08:15 / September 18, 2024 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 117.6256° East, 31.9132° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 12:08:15 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mingguang, Huainan, Wuhu. Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Hefei (c. 3 310 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Huainan (c. 1 027 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Wuhu (c. 507 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Chuzhou (c. 280 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Chaohu (c. 138 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lucheng (c. 89 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Mingguang (c. 68 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 has struck near.

How would you describe the shaking?

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. 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: 33 km E of Hefei, China.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.6256° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km E of Hefei, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-18 12:08:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-18 12:23:24 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 369 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.452 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us6000nsvh Id of event.
Event Code 6000nsvh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nsvh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply