A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 178 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (111 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002lkm. Unique identifier: us10002lkm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/06/15 / 2015-06-13 08:18:21 / June 13, 2015 @ 8:18 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.8703 East, latitude 49.2921 North, depth = 95.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 95.2 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:18:21 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 178 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.
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