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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Otrada in Russia


Earthquake location 44.679S, 146.4266WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Otrada in Russia. The temblor was picked up at 03:27:29 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter). 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: us20009nad. Unique identifier: us20009nad. Exact location of event, longitude 146.4266 East, latitude 44.679 North, depth = 177.46 km. Global time and date of event 17/06/17 / 2017-06-17 17:27:29 / June 17, 2017 @ 5:27 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 177.46 km (110 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 81 km NNE of Otrada, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.4266° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 177.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NNE of Otrada, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-17 17:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-12 18:38:00 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 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 2.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 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 us20009nad Id of event.
Event Code 20009nad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009nad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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