A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Kashi in China. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j3h4. Id of event: us2000j3h4. Global time and date of event 13/01/19 / 2019-01-13 09:01:49 / January 13, 2019 @ 9:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 75.3867 East, latitude 39.6296 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:01:49 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 54 km WNW of Kashi, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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