A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kuqa in China. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 82.6874 East, latitude 41.9958 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 04:22:33 / April 17, 2024 @ 4:22 am UTC/GMT. 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: us7000mcld. Id of event: us7000mcld. The temblor was detected at 04:22:33 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuche (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km NNW of Kuqa, China.
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