4.5 magnitude earthquake hits southwestern Mongolia

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-12-23

ULAN BATOR, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 jolted the southwestern Mongolian province of Bayankhongor at 4:42 p.m. local time on Tuesday, the country's Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics said. The epicenter of the quake was 37 km to the southwest of Bogd soum (administrative subdivision) of Bayankhongor province in Mongolia and was initially determined to be at 45.01 degrees north latitude and 100.39 degrees east......

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