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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Gyamotang in China


Earthquake location 32.0719S, 95.0174WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 71 km NNW of Gyamotang, China (44 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 95.0174 East, latitude 32.0719 North, depth = 38.48 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/16 / 2016-05-18 16:57:15 / May 18, 2016 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005i9v. Unique identifier: us10005i9v. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.48 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:57:15 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 71 km NNW of Gyamotang, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 95.0174° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0719° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km NNW of Gyamotang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-18 16:57:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-18 22:29:00 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 326 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 4.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10005i9v Id of event.
Event Code 10005i9v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005i9v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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