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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Lucaogou in China


Earthquake location 43.7916S, 88.0026WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Lucaogou in China on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 11:02:12 / August 19, 2015 @ 11:02 am. Unique identifier: us100033cu. Ids that are associated to the event: us100033cu. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:02:12 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.18 km (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 88.0026° East, 43.7916° North, depth 29.18 km.

Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yan’an Beilu, Ürümqi (min 5000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 19 km ESE of Lucaogou, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 88.0026° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km ESE of Lucaogou, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-19 11:02:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 11:40:14 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 312 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 5.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 us100033cu Id of event.
Event Code 100033cu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033cu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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