A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Mugur-Aksy in Russia. Global time and date of event 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 19:57:37 / December 20, 2024 @ 7:57 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p0gm. Id of event: us7000p0gm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:57:37 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 90.4191° East, latitude 50.5566° North, depth = 10 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ak-Dovurak (c. 12 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kyzyl-Mazhalyk (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ak-Dovurak, Kyzyl-Mazhalyk (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 19 km N of Mugur-Aksy, Russia.
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