A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 238 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (148 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/17 / 2017-07-18 00:23:00 / July 18, 2017 @ 12:23 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:23:00 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20009z3b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009z3b. Exact location, longitude 169.464° East, latitude 54.4488° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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