A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Kuqa in China. Exact location, longitude 83.7032° East, latitude 41.5858° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 00:13:43 / September 18, 2025 @ 12:13 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:13:43 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qwug. Unique identifier: us7000qwug.

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Kuche (c. 68 100 pop). 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).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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