A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Yuanma in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 101.88° East, latitude 25.53° North, depth = 6 km. Event id: us10003xv5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003xv5. The temblor was detected at 20:28:31 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 12:28:31 / November 9, 2015 @ 12:28 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lianran. Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Lianran (c. 106 800 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km S of Yuanma, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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