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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Zeya in Russia


Earthquake location 54.3989S, 126.5351WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Zeya in Russia on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 10:54:59 / March 19, 2016 @ 10:54 am. Exact location of event, depth 13.79 km, 126.5351° East, 54.3989° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.79 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:54:59 / 7:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005azu. Id of event: us20005azu.

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zeya (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Zeya (c. 27 000 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 86 km NNW of Zeya, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5351° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km NNW of Zeya, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-19 10:54:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-19 11:23:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 340 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 7.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20005azu Id of event.
Event Code 20005azu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005azu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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