Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Puyang Chengguanzhen in China

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Puyang Chengguanzhen in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:41:44 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 18:41:44 / February 21, 2025 @ 6:41 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000pw46. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pw46. Exact location of event, longitude 115.2707 East, latitude 35.7191 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (14 miles) from Puyang Chengguanzhen (c. 666 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Heze (c. 254 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yanta (c. 79 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yanggu (c. 74 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Yigou (c. 59 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dingtao (c. 58 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigou, Juye, Dingtao (min 5000 pop).

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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 23 km E of Puyang Chengguanzhen, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	115.2707° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7191° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km E of Puyang Chengguanzhen, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-21 18:41:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-06 19:35:27	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	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.351	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us6000pw46	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pw46	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pw46,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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