A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10002n5c. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002n5c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 01:44:45 / July 3, 2015 @ 1:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 78.0171° East, 37.5244° North. The temblor was reported at 09:44:45 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 83 km SE of Yilkiqi, China.
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