A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 90 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (56 miles). Event id: us6000431s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000431s. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/19 / 2019-06-19 15:53:43 / June 19, 2019 @ 3:53 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 164.6808° East, latitude 54.885° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:53:43 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 90 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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