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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Xam Nua in Laos

Posted by admin on November 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.1109S, 104.54WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Xam Nua in Laos on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us6000rn2z. Event ids that are associated: us6000rn2z. Exact location of event, longitude 104.54 East, latitude 20.1109 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:26:17 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/25 / 2025-11-12 16:26:17 / November 12, 2025 @ 4:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Xam Nua (c. 39 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xam Nua. Close country/countries, Laos (c. 6 368 000 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km ESE of Xam Nua, Laos. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 104.54° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.1109° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km ESE of Xam Nua, Laos Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-12 16:26:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-15 06:18:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rn2z Id of event.
Event Code 6000rn2z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rn2z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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