A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 44 km SW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (27 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 07:07:17 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 165.5045° East, latitude 54.9088° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000j03q. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j03q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 20:07:17 / January 3, 2019 @ 8:07 pm.
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 44 km SW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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