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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 32 km NE of Tiandiba, China


Earthquake location 27.9012S, 103.4946WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Tiandiba in China. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 00:25:16 / October 28, 2018 @ 12:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 103.4946° East, 27.9012° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 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: us2000i5yx. Event ids that are associated: us2000i5yx. The temblor was detected at 08:25:16 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhaotong. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop). Nearby 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 nine 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NE of Tiandiba, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.4946° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.9012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NE of Tiandiba, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-28 00:25:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-03 01:02:12 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 298 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 5.758 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us2000i5yx Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5yx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5yx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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