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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 176 km ENE of Vostok, Russia


Earthquake location 49.2476S, 151.2626WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 176 km ENE of Vostok, Russia (109 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 276.64 km (172 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:42:58 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009y1s. Unique identifier: us20009y1s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/07/17 / 2017-07-13 15:42:58 / July 13, 2017 @ 3:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 276.64 km, 151.2626° East, 49.2476° North.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 176 km ENE of Vostok, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.2626° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2476° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 276.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km ENE of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-13 15:42:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-11 16:13:18 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 298 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 5.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 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 us20009y1s Id of event.
Event Code 20009y1s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009y1s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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