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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 50.3781S, 142.2617WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy in Russia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.1 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.2617° East, 50.3781° North, depth 15.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 11:21:32 / August 14, 2016 @ 11:21 am. The temblor was reported at 21:21:32 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006eqy. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006eqy.

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Smirnykh, Tymovskoye, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (c. 12 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Tymovskoye (c. 8 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Smirnykh (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 58 km S of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.3781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km S of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-14 11:21:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 10:17:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 3.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us10006eqy Id of event.
Event Code 10006eqy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006eqy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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