A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tsant in Mongolia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 02:41:10 / September 21, 2019 @ 2:41 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 106.7111° East, 46.1912° North. Id of earthquake: us60005lnb. Event ids that are associated: us60005lnb. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:41:10 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Mongolia (c. 3 087 000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Mandalgovi (c. 15 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mandalgovi (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days 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.
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