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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Yinchuan in China


Earthquake location 38.4597S, 106.2225WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Yinchuan in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 02:01:17 / January 2, 2025 @ 2:01 am. The temblor was detected at 02:01:17 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 106.2225 East, latitude 38.4597 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pgzd. Unique identifier: us6000pgzd.

Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 4 km (3 miles) from Yinchuan (c. 475 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Shizuishan (c. 136 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Dawukou (c. 131 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Shitanjing (c. 78 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shizuishan, Shitanjing, Dawukou.

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. 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 in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km WSW of Yinchuan, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.2225° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km WSW of Yinchuan, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-02 02:01:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 02:12:52 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.211 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 70 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 us6000pgzd Id of event.
Event Code 6000pgzd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pgzd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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