A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007nsi. Unique identifier: us10007nsi. The temblor was reported at 04:13:22 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 17:13:22 / December 30, 2016 @ 5:13 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 159.8018° East, latitude 52.8748° North, depth = 56.61 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.61 km (35 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 79 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.
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