A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Sokhumi in Georgia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/16 / 2016-07-28 06:05:15 / July 28, 2016 @ 6:05 am. The temblor was reported at 10:05:15 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100067z6. Event ids that are associated: us100067z6. Exact location of event, longitude 40.8998 East, latitude 42.9566 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (6 miles) from Sokhumi (c. 81 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Stantsiya Novyy Afon (c. 26 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tqvarch’eli (c. 17 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Och’amch’ire (c. 15 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Gali (c. 11 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Gantiadi (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Teberda, Gantiadi, Gali (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SW of Sokhumi, Georgia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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