A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes Guangxi, China kilometers (0 miles) from Guangxi, China on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.62 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 111.5146° East, latitude 24.1803° North, depth = 16.62 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 09:18:13 / July 31, 2016 @ 9:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:13 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100068xz. Event ids that are associated: us100068xz.
Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Wuzhou (c. 265 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Huaicheng (c. 89 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Nanfeng (c. 86 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Babu (c. 65 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wuzhou, Huaicheng, Nanfeng (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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