A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Xunchang in China. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 105.1159 East, latitude 28.0608 North, depth = 39.18 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:34:13 / 8:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.18 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c1e1. Unique identifier: us6000c1e1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/20 / 2020-09-25 20:34:13 / September 25, 2020 @ 8:34 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yibin, Bijie, Xunchang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Yibin (c. 242 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bijie (c. 77 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Xunchang (c. 64 600 pop).
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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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