A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Wenlan in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 09:24:02 / May 4, 2016 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005dkq. Id of event: us10005dkq. The temblor was reported at 17:24:02 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 103.3303 East, latitude 23.2313 North, depth = 15.17 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.17 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wenshan City, Kaiyuan, Gejiu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Wenshan City (c. 450 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kaiyuan (c. 198 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Gejiu (c. 136 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
Every 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SW of Wenlan, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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