A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 133 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (83 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/19 / 2019-01-19 09:07:39 / January 19, 2019 @ 9:07 am. Event id: us2000j6b0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j6b0. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:07:39 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 163.9359 East, latitude 55.0003 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 133 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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