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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Dazuocun in China

Posted by admin on September 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.5022S, 119.169WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Dazuocun in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 119.169 East, latitude 24.5022 North, depth = 19.21 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 08:51:21 / September 20, 2025 @ 8:51 am. Event id: us7000qxji. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxji. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:51:21 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.21 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop), Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ximei, Xindian, Jincheng (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Quanzhou (c. 184 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ximei (c. 94 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Jinjiang (c. 89 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Luoyang (c. 66 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Jincheng (c. 37 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Dazuo (c. 9 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Yongning (c. 8 500 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 47 km SSE of Dazuocun, China.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.169° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5022° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km SSE of Dazuocun, China Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-20 08:51:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-21 05:09:55 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 326 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.713 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us7000qxji Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxji An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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