A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Dayuanhuizu in China. Exact location, longitude 105.2417° East, latitude 32.4352° North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60008dt6. Unique identifier: us60008dt6. The temblor was picked up at 11:34:45 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/20 / 2020-03-06 03:34:45 / March 6, 2020 @ 3:34 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Guangyuan (c. 213 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Jiangyou (c. 127 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jiangyou, Guangyuan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NNE of Dayuanhuizu, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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