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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia region


Earthquake location 53.3998S, 169.5747WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia region (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.5747 East, latitude 53.3998 North, depth = 28.96 km. Global time and date of event 19/07/17 / 2017-07-19 02:01:19 / July 19, 2017 @ 2:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.96 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20009xsj. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009xsj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:01:19 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.5747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.3998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-19 02:01:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-19 03:28:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 246 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 2.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us20009xsj Id of event.
Event Code 20009xsj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009xsj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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