A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Kuqa in China on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 05:27:56 / April 19, 2024 @ 5:27 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 81.9139 East, latitude 41.7672 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000md2v. Id of event: us7000md2v. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:27:56 / 5:27 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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 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 four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 84 km W of Kuqa, China.
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