A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Xichang in China. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 101.9056 East, latitude 28.2622 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:26:23 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0pp. Id of event: us6000r0pp. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 19:26:23 / July 29, 2025 @ 7:26 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Xichang (c. 126 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Xichang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km NW of Xichang, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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