A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:21:28 / 7:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000h651. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h651. 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 113 km (70 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 07:21:28 / October 3, 2018 @ 7:21 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.9335 East, latitude 53.5244 North, depth = 113 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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