A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia. Exact location, longitude 159.8081° East, latitude 53.2474° North, depth = 67.02 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.02 km (42 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 02:44:58 / January 4, 2018 @ 2:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:44:58 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000c0ju. Event ids that are associated: us1000c0ju.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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