A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Sakhalin, Russia kilometers (0 miles) from Sakhalin, Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/20 / 2020-11-08 13:29:22 / November 8, 2020 @ 1:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.7841 East, latitude 52.946 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:29:22 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000cc3y. Event ids that are associated: us7000cc3y. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Okha (c. 26 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okha (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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.
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