A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Arzak in China. The temblor was reported at 10:51:30 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/09/18 / 2018-09-04 02:51:30 / September 4, 2018 @ 2:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.9 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 76.6279° East, latitude 39.5584° North, depth = 35.9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000h80h. Unique identifier: us2000h80h.
Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kashi (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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