A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. Exact location, longitude 158.8568° East, latitude 52.7055° North, depth = 73.11 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:17:16 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.11 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yjq. Id of event: us10003yjq. Global time and date of event 15/11/15 / 2015-11-15 23:17:16 / November 15, 2015 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 39 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.
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