A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Kashi in China. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 02:22:21 / October 30, 2018 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hiut. Id of event: us1000hiut. Exact location of event, depth 20.4 km, 75.1416° East, 39.4737° North. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:22:21 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kashi (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Kashi (c. 274 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km W of Kashi, China. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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