6900 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/9401586/mag4quake-May-24-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Yining , a city with more than 520,000 inhabitants in China , in 18.7 km (12 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced light shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-05-24T17:12+0200volcanodiscovery-b9afc529bb462f13ed5ddc10b5f670f020240524171200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9401452/mag4quake-May-24-2024-NORTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Yining , a city with more than 520,000 inhabitants in China , in 63 km (39 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to the....2024-05-24T16:00+0200volcanodiscovery-0a60f7e7491fde59bc3b4ea14c2ebadb20240524160000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9401225/mag4quake-May-24-2024-SOUTHERN-XINJIANG-CHINA.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Aral , a city with more than 260,000 inhabitants in China , in 127 km (79 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected (or not) by the shaking.2024-05-24T14:14+0200volcanodiscovery-89182cc2a31dc0ae07fa48e50c1666ec20240524141400https://thefridaytimes.com/24-May-2024/government-apathy-is-leading-to-heritage-sites-disappearing-in-both-india-and-pakistanKafiro Dherai, which falls in the district of Shangla of Pakistan, has a beautiful and relatively large-scale site of a group of Bodhisattvas and seated Buddhist carvings. However, the carvings have been recently damaged. Treasure hunters have tried to take the Buddha carving out of the boulder by drilling.2024-05-24T12:57+0200thefridaytimes-e68b449487549c8ee4cef94d298cdb1420240524125700