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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Xinqiao in China


Earthquake location 33.0725S, 121.3722WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Xinqiao in China. The temblor was reported at 16:10:17 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14.03 km, 121.3722° East, 33.0725° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 08:10:17 / December 8, 2019 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.03 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60006ra5. Unique identifier: us60006ra5.

Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Dazhong (c. 84 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Juegang (c. 73 300 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dazhong, Juegang.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 55 km ENE of Xinqiao, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.3722° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.0725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km ENE of Xinqiao, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-08 08:10:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-05 11:54:29 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 271 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 5.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us60006ra5 Id of event.
Event Code 60006ra5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ra5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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