A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Xunchang in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60006c3v. Event ids that are associated: us60006c3v. The temblor was reported at 21:28:07 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 104.7737 East, latitude 28.5346 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/19 / 2019-11-10 13:28:07 / November 10, 2019 @ 1:28 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zigong, Yibin, Xunchang. Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Zigong (c. 690 000 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNE of Xunchang, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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