Mag. 4.8 earthquake - 220 km southeast of Chamdo, Xizang, China, on Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 15:32 (GMT)

Mag. 4.8 earthquake - 220 km southeast of Chamdo, Xizang, China, on Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 15:32 (GMT)

Light magnitude 4.8 earthquake at 10 km depth

13 Dec 15:43 UTC: Premier à signaler: GFZ après 10 minutes.
Date & time: 13 Dec 2018 15:32:53 UTC
Magnitude: 4.8
Profondeur: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 29.78°N / 98.86°E (Région autonome du Tibet, Chine)
Nearby towns and cities:
220 km SE de Chamdo (Tibet) (pop: 86,300) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
233 km NNO de Shangri-La (Yunnan) (pop: 130,000) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
300 km O de Kangding (Sichuan) (pop: 100,000) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
350 km NNO de Lijiang (Yunnan) (pop: 1,137,600) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
392 km ONO de Xichang (Sichuan) (pop: 126,800) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
393 km ENE de Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh, Inde) (pop: 25,600) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
426 km NE de Tinsukia (Assam, Inde) (pop: 89,400) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
455 km NO de Dadukou (Sichuan) (pop: 461,500) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
463 km NE de Dibrugarh (Assam, Inde) (pop: 122,200) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
1952 km OSO de Pékin (Beijing) (pop: 11,716,600) --> Voir les séismes à proximité!
Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 1 x 1012 joules (278 megawatt hours, equivalent to 239 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeProfondeurLocationSource
M 4.810 kmXizangGFZ
M 5.140 km EASTERN XIZANGEMSC
M 4.98 km西藏昌都市芒康县CEIC
M 5.118 km- 22km ENE of Gartog, ChinaUSGS
M 5.137 kmXizangGeoAu

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