A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Bayan Hot in China. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 08:43:33 / January 2, 2025 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 105.7526° East, 38.5333° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ph1g. Unique identifier: us6000ph1g. The temblor was picked up at 08:43:33 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shitanjing, Dawukou, Yinchuan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (28 miles) from Yinchuan (c. 475 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Dawukou (c. 131 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Shitanjing (c. 78 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two 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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