A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Paratunka in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 139.07 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 158.2491 East, latitude 52.8688 North, depth = 139.07 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/19 / 2019-04-01 20:23:35 / April 1, 2019 @ 8:23 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:23:35 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000k8tw. Event ids that are associated: us2000k8tw.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km S of Paratunka, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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