A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Zhaotong in China on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/18 / 2018-08-10 17:17:33 / August 10, 2018 @ 5:17 pm. The temblor was detected at 01:17:33 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). 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 17.93 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000g6gj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g6gj. Exact location of event, longitude 104.0428 East, latitude 27.3012 North, depth = 17.93 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Weining, Zhaotong (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Zhaotong (c. 109 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Weining (c. 56 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 32 km E of Zhaotong, China.
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