Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Yanling in China


Earthquake location 29.4975S, 104.6321WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Yanling in China. Unique identifier: us2000jmpz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jmpz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 05:15:59 / February 25, 2019 @ 5:15 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 104.6321° East, latitude 29.4975° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 13:15:59 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Leshan (c. 154 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Chonglong (c. 58 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leshan, Yibin, Yanjiang (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SW of Yanling, China.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.6321° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Yanling, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-25 05:15:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-25 06:24:30 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 4.293 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 23 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 us2000jmpz Id of event.
Event Code 2000jmpz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jmpz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply