A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 217 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (135 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hb08. Unique identifier: us1000hb08. Exact location of event, depth 68.29 km, 155.0404° East, 48.8585° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:19:47 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 13:19:47 / October 6, 2018 @ 1:19 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.29 km (42 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fourty 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 217 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.
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