A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 122 kilometers (76 miles) from Yilkiqi in China. The temblor was reported at 10:17:27 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 78.2775° East, 37.214° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 02:17:27 / July 3, 2015 @ 2:17 am. Unique identifier: us20002yyk. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002yyk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Zangguy (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zangguy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 122 km SE of Yilkiqi, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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