Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Yongle in China

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 43 km W of Yongle, China (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/08/17 / 2017-08-09 02:17:04 / August 9, 2017 @ 2:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.7708 East, latitude 33.2178 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000a67c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a67c. The temblor was picked up at 10:17:04 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km W of Yongle, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	103.7708° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	33.2178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km W of Yongle, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-09 02:17:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-09 02:36:24	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	354	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	12.211	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us2000a67c	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a67c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a67c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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