A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 02:27:26 / January 7, 2025 @ 2:27 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:27:26 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pibp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pibp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 87.1579° East, 28.2665° North, depth 10 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lobujya (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 49 km NE of Lobuche, Nepal.
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