A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Kermadec Islands region (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 05:20:45 / August 9, 2015 @ 5:20 am. Exact location of event, longitude -176.0265 West, latitude -27.0725 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us1000350j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000350j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:20:45 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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