A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tyube in Russia. Exact location, longitude 47.1975° East, latitude 43.071° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:34:05 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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: us60003rxg. Unique identifier: us60003rxg. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/05/19 / 2019-05-24 22:34:05 / May 24, 2019 @ 10:34 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Makhachkala (c. 498 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Khasavyurt (c. 126 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kaspiysk (c. 81 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Buynaksk (c. 62 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kizlyar (c. 50 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Izberbash (c. 42 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Kizilyurt (c. 33 400 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kayakent, Kizlyar, Kargalinskaya (min 5000 pop).
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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 9 km WNW of Tyube, Russia.
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