A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 99 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (62 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 03:30:17 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 164.4347 East, latitude 55.2272 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/19 / 2019-03-06 16:30:17 / March 6, 2019 @ 4:30 pm. Event id: us1000jb8w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jb8w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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