A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Kangding in China. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:32 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10007px0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007px0. Exact location, longitude 102.2869° East, latitude 29.8052° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 15:14:32 / January 4, 2017 @ 3:14 pm.
Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kangding (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Kangding (c. 100 000 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 41 km SE of Kangding, China.
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