A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Korsakov in Russia on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/03/17 / 2017-03-24 22:02:56 / March 24, 2017 @ 10:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008ug7. Unique identifier: us20008ug7. Exact location of event, depth 338.62 km, 143.1799° East, 45.8743° North. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:02:56 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 338.62 km (210 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Korsakov (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Korsakov (c. 35 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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