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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Dongguan in China


Earthquake location 39.1192S, 110.5202WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Dongguan in China. Id of earthquake: us20002yy6. Event ids that are associated: us20002yy6. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.71 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:03:55 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 22:03:55 / July 3, 2015 @ 10:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.5202 East, latitude 39.1192 North, depth = 9.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ordos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Ordos (c. 1 940 700 pop).

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 occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 53 km WNW of Dongguan, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.5202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1192° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km WNW of Dongguan, 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 22:03:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 04:14:35 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 246 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 4.456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us20002yy6 Id of event.
Event Code 20002yy6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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