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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Suzun in Russia


Earthquake location 53.6334S, 82.1136WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Suzun in Russia. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/17 / 2017-03-12 11:50:39 / March 12, 2017 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100088il. Unique identifier: us100088il. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 82.1136 East, latitude 53.6334 North, depth = 48.83 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:50:39 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.83 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pervomayskiy, Ordynskoye, Pavlovsk. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Kamen’-na-Obi (c. 44 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Suzun (c. 15 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pavlovsk (c. 14 800 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ordynskoye (c. 10 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Rebrikha (c. 8 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tyumentsevo (c. 5 800 pop).

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. 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 nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km SW of Suzun, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 82.1136° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Suzun, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-12 11:50:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-12 12:07:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 284 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 1.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us100088il Id of event.
Event Code 100088il An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088il, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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