A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Aksu in China. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 13:26:42 / August 28, 2015 @ 1:26 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.4 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us100035p8. Unique identifier: us100035p8. Exact location, longitude 80.8436° East, latitude 41.7382° North, depth = 44.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:26:42 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yingbazha (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Yingbazha (c. 340 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km NE of Aksu, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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