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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Shikotan in Russia

Posted by admin on October 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.6222S, 148.3864WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 135 km E of Shikotan, Russia (84 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: us20007fu6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007fu6. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 08:44:50 / October 21, 2016 @ 8:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:44:50 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.3864 East, latitude 43.6222 North, depth = 37.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.99 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 135 km E of Shikotan, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.3864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.6222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km E of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-21 08:44:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-21 09:00:51 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 354 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 4.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 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 us20007fu6 Id of event.
Event Code 20007fu6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007fu6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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