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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Ozernovskiy in Russia

Posted by admin on May 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.3699S, 153.0706WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 255 km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia (158 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 19:10:31 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 09:10:31 / May 17, 2016 @ 9:10 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 447.88 km (278 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us10005hx3. Id of event: us10005hx3. Exact location, longitude 153.0706° East, latitude 52.3699° North, depth = 447.88 km.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 255 km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.0706° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 447.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 255km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-17 09:10:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-17 09:49:03 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 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 2.909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us10005hx3 Id of event.
Event Code 10005hx3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hx3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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