A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Turka in Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/16 / 2016-02-03 18:27:51 / February 3, 2016 @ 6:27 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 107.643° East, 52.8634° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:27:51 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20004wx2. Event ids that are associated: us20004wx2.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Turuntayevo (c. 6 300 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Turuntayevo (min 5000 pop).
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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 40 km WSW of Turka, Russia.
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