A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.43 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 159.7195° East, latitude 53.2126° North, depth = 66.43 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 21:50:27 / March 14, 2016 @ 9:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10004xlw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004xlw. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:50:27 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 74 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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