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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Teberda in Russia

Posted by admin on September 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.2208S, 41.6494WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Teberda in Russia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003j9r. Id of event: us20003j9r. Exact location, longitude 41.6494° East, latitude 43.2208° North, depth = 18.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:07:52 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 09:07:52 / September 14, 2015 @ 9:07 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.74 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khabez, Pregradnaya, Ali-Berdukovskiy. Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Sokhumi (c. 81 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Zugdidi (c. 73 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Stantsiya Novyy Afon (c. 26 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Zelenchukskaya (c. 21 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Karachayevsk (c. 20 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tqvarch’eli (c. 17 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Och’amch’ire (c. 15 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km SSW of Teberda, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 41.6494° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2208° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSW of Teberda, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-14 09:07:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-14 21:35:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003j9r Id of event.
Event Code 20003j9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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