A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ningzhou in China. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000g8bq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g8bq. The temblor was detected at 03:50:38 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/18 / 2018-08-13 19:50:38 / August 13, 2018 @ 7:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 102.9156 East, latitude 24.2229 North, depth = 10 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gejiu, Majie, Kunming (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Kunming (c. 3 855 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Kaiyuan (c. 198 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Gejiu (c. 136 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Majie (c. 131 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Haikou (c. 112 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lianran (c. 106 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Yuxi (c. 103 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km NNW of Ningzhou, China.
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