A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 121 kilometers (75 miles) from Layka in China. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002z6q. Unique identifier: us20002z6q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 02:49:40 / July 4, 2015 @ 2:49 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:49:40 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 78.3817 East, latitude 37.2272 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zangguy (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 121 km W of Layka, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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