A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Changning in China. The temblor was detected at 21:03:04 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 13:03:04 / November 27, 2019 @ 1:03 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006dr6. Unique identifier: us70006dr6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 104.9716 East, latitude 28.4589 North, depth = 10 km.
The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yibin, Xunchang. 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one 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. 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: 14 km SSE of Changning, China.
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