A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ehen Hudag in China on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 25.17 km, 101.4843° East, 38.977° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.17 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/16 / 2016-11-16 01:13:54 / November 16, 2016 @ 1:13 am. The temblor was detected at 09:13:54 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007cuu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007cuu.
Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Jinchang (c. 144 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Zhangye (c. 96 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zhangye, Jinchang. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 29 km SSW of Ehen Hudag, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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