A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 145.6993 East, latitude 43.9633 North, depth = 161.89 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/19 / 2019-05-04 02:52:54 / May 4, 2019 @ 2:52 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003kw9. Unique identifier: us70003kw9. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:52:54 / 1:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 161.89 km (101 miles).
The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nemuro, Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk. Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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: 14 km WSW of Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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