A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 40 km NNE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (25 miles). Global time and date of event 02/04/16 / 2016-04-02 10:09:51 / April 2, 2016 @ 10:09 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005e4c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005e4c. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:09:51 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 166.1458° East, latitude 55.5514° North, depth = 27.65 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.65 km (17 miles).
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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 40 km NNE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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