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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Fangting in China

Posted by admin on November 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.1791S, 103.9693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Fangting in China. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.43 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bpme. Event ids that are associated: us2000bpme. The temblor was detected at 08:34:13 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 103.9693 East, latitude 31.1791 North, depth = 20.43 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/17 / 2017-11-06 00:34:13 / November 6, 2017 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Chengdu (c. 7 415 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Mianyang (c. 264 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Deyang (c. 152 200 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Tianpeng (c. 60 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mianyang, Chengdu, Deyang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km WNW of Fangting, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.9693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.1791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WNW of Fangting, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-06 00:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 06:14:44 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 284 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 4.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us2000bpme Id of event.
Event Code 2000bpme An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bpme, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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