Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Meishan in China

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Meishan in China. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:27:40 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.7072 East, latitude 30.1642 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/06/25 / 2025-06-23 22:27:40 / June 23, 2025 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qapz. Id of event: us7000qapz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luocheng, Yanjiang, Leshan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Chengdu (c. 7 415 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Leshan (c. 154 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Linqiong (c. 55 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 18 km NW of Meishan, China.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	103.7072° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	30.1642° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km NW of Meishan, China	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-23 22:27:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-05 04:20:56	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.776	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us7000qapz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qapz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qapz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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