A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 187 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (116 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 00:26:44 / February 19, 2019 @ 12:26 am. Exact location of event, longitude 161.3676 East, latitude 53.4495 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:26:44 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000jjt9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jjt9.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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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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: 187 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.
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