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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 16:46 | 1 hour ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor
Just 19 minutes ago, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Xam Nua, Houaphan, Laos. The tremor was recorded late at night on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, at 11:26 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, the first seismological agency to report it.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Xam Nua (pop. 46,800) located 44 km from the epicenter, and Hoa Binh (pop. 105,300) 104 km away.
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