A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Son La in Vietnam on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c2a2. Unique identifier: us1000c2a2. Exact location, longitude 103.5162° East, latitude 21.4402° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:21:25 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/18 / 2018-01-08 23:21:25 / January 8, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Dien Bien Phu (c. 40 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sơn La (c. 19 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dien Bien Phu, Sơn La. Close country/countries that might be effected, Vietnam (c. 89 571 000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 42 km WNW of Son La, Vietnam.
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