A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Kaltan in Russia. The temblor was picked up at 23:13:37 / 11:13 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007ge9. Unique identifier: us20007ge9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 87.3454° East, latitude 53.5182° North, depth = 16.16 km. Global time and date of event 24/10/16 / 2016-10-24 16:13:37 / October 24, 2016 @ 4:13 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.16 km (10 miles).
Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Krasnobrodskiy, Tashtagol, Sheregesh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Novokuznetsk (c. 539 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Prokop’yevsk (c. 219 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kiselëvsk (c. 104 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mezhdurechensk (c. 101 000 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Osinniki (c. 48 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Myski (c. 44 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km ESE of Kaltan, Russia.
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