A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 99 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (62 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/18 / 2018-12-24 14:21:27 / December 24, 2018 @ 2:21 pm. The temblor was reported at 01:21:27 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j303. Unique identifier: us2000j303. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 164.5904 East, latitude 54.8036 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 99 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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