A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Friday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:39:30 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 77.27 km, 158.3398° East, 52.1774° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000i5su. Unique identifier: us2000i5su. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/11/18 / 2018-11-02 09:39:30 / November 2, 2018 @ 9:39 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.27 km (48 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (61 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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