A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ust’-Koksa in Russia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006c9u. Unique identifier: us10006c9u. Exact location, longitude 85.5042° East, latitude 50.5742° North, depth = 50.37 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 07:54:17 / August 9, 2016 @ 7:54 am. The temblor was detected at 13:54:17 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.37 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Onguday (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Onguday (c. 5 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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