A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Lobuche in Nepal. Id of earthquake: us6000pkrz. Event ids that are associated: us6000pkrz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 87.1134 East, latitude 28.3017 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:27:38 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 02:27:38 / January 7, 2025 @ 2:27 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lobujya. Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Lobujya (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nepal (c. 28 952 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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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