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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 4 km NE of Luocheng, China

Posted by admin on September 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.4109S, 104.0599WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Luocheng in China. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 104.0599 East, latitude 29.4109 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000qw9n. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qw9n. The temblor was detected at 08:42:10 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/25 / 2025-09-15 08:42:10 / September 15, 2025 @ 8:42 am. 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 Neijiang, Yanjiang, Yibin. Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Neijiang (c. 546 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Leshan (c. 154 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yanjiang (c. 87 400 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Luocheng (c. 73 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Chonglong (c. 58 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NE of Luocheng, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.0599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.4109° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NE of Luocheng, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-15 08:42:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-15 13:58:59 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 93 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.799 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 64 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 us7000qw9n Id of event.
Event Code 7000qw9n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qw9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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