A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Kashi in China. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.02 km (17 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/18 / 2018-10-08 14:48:02 / October 8, 2018 @ 2:48 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:48:02 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h8rt. Id of event: us1000h8rt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 75.1931 East, latitude 39.4408 North, depth = 27.02 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (43 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kashi. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km W of Kashi, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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