A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guankou in China. Global time and date of event 20/01/19 / 2019-01-20 00:35:51 / January 20, 2019 @ 12:35 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000jc0m. Event ids that are associated: us2000jc0m. Exact location of event, longitude 103.4517 East, latitude 31.0452 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:35:51 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Deyang, Chengdu, Linqiong (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Chengdu (c. 7 415 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Deyang (c. 152 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tianpeng (c. 60 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Linqiong (c. 55 600 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km WNW of Guankou, China.
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