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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Berezovyy in Russia


Earthquake location 51.1323S, 135.4973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Berezovyy in Russia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.23 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 16:30:56 / June 11, 2016 @ 4:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 135.4973 East, latitude 51.1323 North, depth = 15.23 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:30:56 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200064us. Event ids that are associated: us200064us.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Solnechnyy, Berëzovyy (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Solnechnyy (c. 14 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Berëzovyy (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km SSW of Berezovyy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 135.4973° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SSW of Berezovyy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-11 16:30:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-11 14:32:01 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 271 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 14.716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us200064us Id of event.
Event Code 200064us An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064us, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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