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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 107 km SE of Yilkiqi, China


Earthquake location 37.4144S, 78.2566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 107 kilometers (66 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. Unique identifier: us10002n5n. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002n5n. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 03:11:12 / July 3, 2015 @ 3:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 78.2566° East, latitude 37.4144° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:11:12 / 11:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 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).

Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zangguy. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 107 km SE of Yilkiqi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.2566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km SE of Yilkiqi, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-03 03:11:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-03 03:28:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.777 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us10002n5n Id of event.
Event Code 10002n5n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002n5n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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