181870 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8812296/mag4quake-Jan-29-2024-China-KYRGYZSTAN-XINJIANG-BORDER-REGION.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is New Aksu, a city with more than 540,000 inhabitants in China , in 74 km (46 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to....2024-01-29T18:56+0100volcanodiscovery-066f957c414c7993272d908384b4d04920240129185600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8812273/mag3quake-Jan-29-2024-KAZAKHSTAN-XINJIANG-BORDER-REGION.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Huocheng, a city with more than 360,000 inhabitants in China , in 86 km (53 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to....2024-01-29T18:02+0100volcanodiscovery-f9e39fa7ecfa4c950b106ae0536ab9cc20240129180200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8812157/mag4quake-Jan-29-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Urumaci, a city of 3 million people in China , in 54 km (33 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the epicenter and might have experienced stronger shaking.2024-01-29T18:02+0100volcanodiscovery-f9b6a43d03ee589f220e5876babe879820240129180200https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/nation_world/china-mysterious-light-appears-as-intense-earthquake-strikes-xinjiang/video_0e5b1425-8a07-51df-9563-8c8776eabff8.htmlThis video was captured when an earthquake struck Aksu, Xinjiang on January 23. The seismic activity was significant, with visible shaking of buildings, cars, and walls, accompanied by what some believed to be earthquake light. Some Chinese netizens believed that the "lights" were not....2024-01-29T13:22+0100eastoregonian-074afdd38018ad8638b9abe875a78b9720240129132200