7400 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/8897053/mag4quake-Mar-9-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Shihezi, a city with more than 570,000 inhabitants in China , in 44 km (27 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-03-09T15:31+0100volcanodiscovery-f1aa64d42b41a5745a6f9f3d5a0c0c0020240309153100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8897054/mag4quake-Mar-9-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlBased on data from the past 10 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 264 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 5 or higher: 0.59 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 1.7 years) Mag. 4 or higher: 90 quakes per year (or 7.2024-03-09T15:31+0100volcanodiscovery-8acf4a477f83714d5007c6007865456420240309153100https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8896642/mag4quake-Mar-9-2024-India-KASHMIR-XIZANG-BORDER-REGION.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Leh, a town with 37,000 inhabitants in India , in 123 km (77 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the capital of , New Delhi, 572 km (355 mi) away from the epicenter, the earthquake could not be felt.2024-03-09T08:14+0100volcanodiscovery-2fc0cc40838eab382a6cba8550c8ad6b20240309081400https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8896562/mag3quake-Mar-9-2024-China-.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Nagqu Prefecture, a town with 30,000 inhabitants in China , in 84 km (52 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected (or not) by the shaking.2024-03-09T07:03+0100volcanodiscovery-014c0af3251adedcf2828fbfc5ded2a720240309070300