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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.0343S, 169.2629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 247 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (153 miles) on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 15:40:02 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.69 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 169.2629 East, latitude 54.0343 North, depth = 18.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000a4gf. Event ids that are associated: us2000a4gf. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/17 / 2017-07-31 04:40:02 / July 31, 2017 @ 4:40 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 247 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.2629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.0343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km ESE of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-31 04:40:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-10 03:09:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 259 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 3.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us2000a4gf Id of event.
Event Code 2000a4gf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a4gf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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