Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Zigong in China

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Zigong in China on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 104.8555° East, 29.4755° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 21:50:20 / January 22, 2025 @ 9:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:50:20 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000pacn. Event ids that are associated: us7000pacn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Luocheng, Yanjiang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Chonglong (c. 58 400 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNE of Zigong, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	104.8555° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.4755° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE of Zigong, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-22 21:50:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-16 23:22:05	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	284	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.107	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us7000pacn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pacn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pacn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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