A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Shangri-La in China. Exact location of event, longitude 99.8279 East, latitude 28.1006 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:47:44 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000pkql. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkql. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/25 / 2025-01-07 06:47:44 / January 7, 2025 @ 6:47 am.
Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Shangri-La (c. 130 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shangri-La.
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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 32 km NNE of Shangri-La, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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