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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Wenping in China


Earthquake location 27.1807S, 103.5792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Wenping in China. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:56:56 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006d7x. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006d7x. Global time and date of event 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 06:56:56 / August 12, 2016 @ 6:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.5792 East, latitude 27.1807 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Weining (c. 56 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Weining, Zhaotong (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 5 km ESE of Wenping, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.5792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.1807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE of Wenping, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-12 06:56:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-12 07:15:13 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 340 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 6.905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10006d7x Id of event.
Event Code 10006d7x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006d7x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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