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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 74 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China


Earthquake location 37.6589S, 78.0066WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Yilkiqi in China on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 08:36:38 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 78.0066 East, latitude 37.6589 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002ncm. Id of event: us10002ncm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 00:36:38 / July 4, 2015 @ 12:36 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zangguy. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 78.0066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6589° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km ESE 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 2015-07-04 00:36:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-14 04:16:10 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10002ncm Id of event.
Event Code 10002ncm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002ncm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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