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Light earthquake 4 mag, 20 km SSW of Gucheng, China


Earthquake location 35.6776S, 106.414WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Gucheng in China on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005dec. Unique identifier: us10005dec. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:19:48 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 106.414° East, latitude 35.6776° North, depth = 14.81 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.81 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/04/16 / 2016-04-23 11:19:48 / April 23, 2016 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Pingliang (c. 108 200 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pingliang (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 20 km SSW of Gucheng, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 106.414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6776° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSW of Gucheng, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-23 11:19:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 12:15:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 247 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 5.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us10005dec Id of event.
Event Code 10005dec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005dec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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