A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.99 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000izxc. Id of event: us2000izxc. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 20:30:02 / January 2, 2019 @ 8:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:30:02 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.1503 East, latitude 53.6037 North, depth = 19.99 km.
Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 69 km NE of Yelizovo, Russia.
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