A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Tymovskoye in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3168 East, latitude 50.4543 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:23:08 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 08:23:08 / August 15, 2016 @ 8:23 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10006dw2. Event ids that are associated: us10006dw2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Smirnykh, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Tymovskoye. Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (c. 12 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tymovskoye (c. 8 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Smirnykh (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km SSW of Tymovskoye, Russia.
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