A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Yining Xian in China. The temblor was detected at 00:37:15 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 80.4279 East, latitude 43.2425 North, depth = 43.35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/02/16 / 2016-02-29 18:37:15 / February 29, 2016 @ 6:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004tm6. Event ids that are associated: us10004tm6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.35 km (27 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 101 km (63 miles) from Kegen (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Kazakhstan (c. 15 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kegen (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 96 km SW of Yining Xian, China. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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