A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Uglegorsk in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 14:09:02 / September 13, 2020 @ 2:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bmq2. Unique identifier: us7000bmq2. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:09:02 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 142.1828 East, latitude 48.8946 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poronaysk, Makarov, Shakhtersk (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Poronaysk (c. 16 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Uglegorsk (c. 12 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Shakhtersk (c. 10 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Makarov (c. 6 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km SSE of Uglegorsk, Russia.
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