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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.8124S, 158.7119WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 126 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (78 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.39 km (37 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 11:56:13 / November 19, 2015 @ 11:56 am. Exact location of event, longitude 158.7119 East, latitude 51.8124 North, depth = 59.39 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zi5. Id of event: us10003zi5. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:56:13 / 10:56 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 126 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.7119° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8124° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-19 11:56:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 12:16:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 369 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 1.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us10003zi5 Id of event.
Event Code 10003zi5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zi5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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