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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 39 km ENE of Qiaowa, China


Earthquake location 28.0648S, 101.6453WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Qiaowa in China. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 23:26:08 / December 24, 2016 @ 11:26 pm. Unique identifier: us10007mkd. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007mkd. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 101.6453° East, 28.0648° North. The temblor was reported at 07:26:08 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (39 miles) from Xichang (c. 126 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Xichang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 39 km ENE of Qiaowa, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.6453° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.0648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ENE of Qiaowa, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-24 23:26:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-24 23:39:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 7.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10007mkd Id of event.
Event Code 10007mkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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