A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Zhaoyu in China on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 112.3503 East, latitude 37.3686 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:21:24 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007bgu. Unique identifier: us60007bgu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 14:21:24 / January 6, 2020 @ 2:21 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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 Taiyuan, Jiexiu, Yuci. Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Taiyuan (c. 3 426 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yuci (c. 235 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Jiexiu (c. 77 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Gutao (c. 42 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km ENE of Zhaoyu, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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