A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Yilkiqi in China on Friday. Exact location, longitude 78.1287° East, latitude 37.6516° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ywr. Id of event: us20002ywr. The temblor was detected at 09:22:50 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 01:22:50 / July 3, 2015 @ 1:22 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zangguy (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 84 km ESE of Yilkiqi, China.
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