A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Jinding in China. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000j159. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j159. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 99.4786° East, 26.7632° North. The temblor was reported at 01:15:44 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/19 / 2019-01-07 17:15:44 / January 7, 2019 @ 5:15 pm UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Lijiang (c. 1 137 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lijiang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 36 km N of Jinding, China.
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