A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 173 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (107 miles). Unique identifier: us10003q9g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003q9g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/10/15 / 2015-10-14 16:30:51 / October 14, 2015 @ 4:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:30:51 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.78 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, depth 50.78 km, 156.0306° East, 49.1199° North.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 173 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.
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