A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 239 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (149 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:09:50 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 169.2603 East, latitude 54.1647 North, depth = 18.81 km. Unique identifier: us2000a3zi. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a3zi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 07:09:50 / August 3, 2017 @ 7:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.81 km (12 miles).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 239 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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