A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Wenping in China. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:56:56 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006d7x. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006d7x. Global time and date of event 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 06:56:56 / August 12, 2016 @ 6:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.5792 East, latitude 27.1807 North, depth = 10 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Weining (c. 56 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Weining, Zhaotong (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km ESE of Wenping, China.
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