A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Layka in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:50:05 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 79.1432° East, 36.8172° North. Unique identifier: us10002n65. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002n65. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 03:50:05 / July 3, 2015 @ 3:50 am.
Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Hotan (c. 114 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hotan, Zangguy. Close country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km WSW of Layka, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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