A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 91 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (57 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 20:34:24 / January 6, 2019 @ 8:34 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 164.6259 East, latitude 54.9384 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000j7wp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j7wp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:34:24 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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