A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Kuqa in China on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rvj4. Unique identifier: us6000rvj4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:01:47 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/25 / 2025-12-17 19:01:47 / December 17, 2025 @ 7:01 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 83.2846 East, latitude 41.0438 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 81 km (51 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuche. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop).
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. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 80 km SSE of Kuqa, China.
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