Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Changji in China

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Changji in China. Exact location of event, longitude 87.3321 East, latitude 43.8519 North, depth = 27.22 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.22 km (17 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:11:24 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000cqhs. Event ids that are associated: us7000cqhs. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 07:11:24 / December 12, 2020 @ 7:11 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ürümqi, Yan’an Beilu. The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ürümqi (c. 3 029 400 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Yan’an Beilu (c. 198 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km S of Changji, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	87.3321° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.8519° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km S of Changji, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-12 07:11:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-12 07:38:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	340	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	4.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us7000cqhs	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cqhs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cqhs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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