A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Xunchang in China. All ids that are associated to the event: us700049zj. Unique identifier: us700049zj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 104.7096 East, latitude 28.5055 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/06/19 / 2019-06-25 16:33:40 / June 25, 2019 @ 4:33 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:33:40 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zigong, Yibin, Xunchang. Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 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 three, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km N of Xunchang, China.
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