A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Changning in China. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/19 / 2019-06-17 15:36:02 / June 17, 2019 @ 3:36 pm. Unique identifier: us600041sa. Ids that are associated to the event: us600041sa. The temblor was picked up at 23:36:02 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 104.8836 East, latitude 28.4514 North, depth = 10 km.
Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zigong, Yibin, Xunchang (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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