A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Hengshui in China. Exact location of event, longitude 115.8472 East, latitude 38.2234 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/02/18 / 2018-02-12 10:31:32 / February 12, 2018 @ 10:31 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:31:32 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000d0va. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d0va. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dezhou, Cangzhou, Dingzhou. Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Baoding (c. 995 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cangzhou (c. 527 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hengshui (c. 456 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Dezhou (c. 379 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Dingzhou (c. 152 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Xinji (c. 145 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Renqiu (c. 98 600 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 one 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NNE of Hengshui, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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