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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Ola in Russia


Earthquake location 59.8639S, 152.052WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ola in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:04:14 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004rmf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004rmf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/16 / 2016-02-22 03:04:14 / February 22, 2016 @ 3:04 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 152.052° East, 59.8639° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Magadan, Ola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Magadan (c. 95 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ola (c. 6 300 pop).

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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 53 km NE of Ola, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NE of Ola, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-22 03:04:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-26 02:32:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 326 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 0.711 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10004rmf Id of event.
Event Code 10004rmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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