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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Yelizovo in Russia


Earthquake location 54.2317S, 159.5463WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 139 km NNE of Yelizovo, Russia (86 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.43 km (79 miles). Unique identifier: us10005iv4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005iv4. Global time and date of event 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 14:39:47 / May 13, 2016 @ 2:39 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:39:47 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.5463 East, latitude 54.2317 North, depth = 127.43 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 139 km NNE of Yelizovo, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5463° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.2317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139km NNE of Yelizovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-13 14:39:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-27 12:01:06 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 234 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 1.323 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 127 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 us10005iv4 Id of event.
Event Code 10005iv4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005iv4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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