A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/19 / 2019-08-30 13:18:52 / August 30, 2019 @ 1:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:18:52 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70005cby. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005cby. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123 km (76 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 158.8313 East, latitude 53.6681 North, depth = 123 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 61 km NNE of Yelizovo, Russia.
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