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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Fuyu in China


Earthquake location 45.3217S, 124.6712WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Fuyu in China on Saturday. Global time and date of event 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 01:13:14 / September 15, 2018 @ 1:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 124.6712 East, latitude 45.3217 North, depth = 13.86 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000hi96. Event ids that are associated: us2000hi96. The temblor was picked up at 09:13:14 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.86 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Fuyu (c. 138 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Qianguo (c. 113 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Dalai (c. 93 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Zhaozhou (c. 62 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Zhaoyuan (c. 59 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhaozhou, Zhaoyuan, Dalai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km NW of Fuyu, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.6712° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.3217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of Fuyu, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-15 01:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 03:29:05 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 312 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 3.563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us2000hi96 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hi96 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hi96, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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