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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Kalinovskaya in Russia

Posted by admin on October 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.6712S, 45.7427WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kalinovskaya in Russia. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003np3. Unique identifier: us20003np3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 02:08:49 / September 12, 2015 @ 2:08 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:08:49 / 5:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 121.66 km, 45.7427° East, 43.6712° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 121.66 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mozdok, Surkhakhi, Galashki (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Groznyy (c. 226 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Khasavyurt (c. 126 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ordzhonikidzevskaya (c. 71 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kizlyar (c. 50 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Urus-Martan (c. 41 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mozdok (c. 40 800 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km ENE of Kalinovskaya, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.7427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ENE of Kalinovskaya, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-12 02:08:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-01 02:51:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 1.994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us20003np3 Id of event.
Event Code 20003np3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003np3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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