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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Xiaozhongdian in China


Earthquake location 27.6512S, 100.2813WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Xiaozhongdian in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 08:30:33 / September 3, 2015 @ 8:30 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.2813 East, latitude 27.6512 North, depth = 26.91 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:30:33 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003jnv. Id of event: us20003jnv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.91 km (17 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Lijiang (c. 1 137 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Shangri-La (c. 130 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lijiang, Shangri-La.

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 has occurred nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 41 km ENE of Xiaozhongdian, China.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.2813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 27.6512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ENE of Xiaozhongdian, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-03 08:30:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-23 06:06:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 3.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us20003jnv Id of event.
Event Code 20003jnv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jnv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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