A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Nagqu in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.9819 East, latitude 31.9088 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rf1d. Id of event: us7000rf1d. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/25 / 2025-12-02 10:56:23 / December 2, 2025 @ 10:56 am. The temblor was detected at 10:56:23 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nagqu. Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 100 km (62 miles) from Nagqu (c. 30 000 pop).
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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 99 km ENE of Nagqu, China.
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