A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 164.6011 East, latitude 55.2158 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 24/12/18 / 2018-12-24 12:05:46 / December 24, 2018 @ 12:05 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:05:46 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ix3q. Unique identifier: us2000ix3q. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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