A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 107 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (66 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 03:16:22 / December 21, 2018 @ 3:16 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j1zz. Unique identifier: us2000j1zz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 164.3262° East, latitude 55.0283° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:16:22 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 107 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia.
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