A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 225 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (140 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000a0v5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a0v5. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:20:21 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.8999 East, latitude 54.0751 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 20/07/17 / 2017-07-20 05:20:21 / July 20, 2017 @ 5:20 am UTC/GMT.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days sixty-six, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 225 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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