A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Staryy Urukh in Russia. Exact location, longitude 44.0588° East, latitude 43.3755° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 02:48:02 / June 2, 2024 @ 2:48 am. 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: us7000mpjz. Unique identifier: us7000mpjz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:48:02 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Znamenskoye, Assinovskaya, Tyrnyauz. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Vladikavkaz (c. 317 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Nal’chik (c. 272 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Nazran’ (c. 164 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ordzhonikidzevskaya (c. 71 800 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Prokhladnyy (c. 60 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Staryy Malgobek (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. 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 nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NE of Staryy Urukh, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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