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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 14 km SSW of Xunchang, China


Earthquake location 28.3463S, 104.6388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Xunchang in China. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 22:56:49 / June 20, 2019 @ 10:56 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:56:49 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700046q7. Id of event: us700046q7. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 104.6388° East, 28.3463° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yibin, Xunchang. Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km SSW of Xunchang, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.6388° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.3463° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW of Xunchang, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-20 22:56:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-28 22:33:27 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 4.655 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us700046q7 Id of event.
Event Code 700046q7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046q7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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