A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Jinghong in China. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 23:12:37 / May 19, 2018 @ 11:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 100.823 East, latitude 21.8605 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000e8ry. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000e8ry. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:12:37 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Jinghong (c. 62 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jinghong.
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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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.
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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: 17 km SSE of Jinghong, China.
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