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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 30 km S of Lavrentiya, Russia


Earthquake location 65.3126S, -171.0548WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 30 km S of Lavrentiya, Russia (19 miles). Event id: ak12857542. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12857542. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:34:30 / 4:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles). Exact location, longitude -171.0548° West, latitude 65.3126° North, depth = 20.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 16:34:30 / February 13, 2016 @ 4:34 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km S of Lavrentiya, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.0548° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.3126° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km S of Lavrentiya, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-13 16:34:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 00:52:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.399980128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ak12857542 Id of event.
Event Code 12857542 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12857542, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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