Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 123 km WNW of Vostok, Russia (76 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/09/17 / 2017-09-11 14:04:03 / September 11, 2017 @ 2:04 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:04:03 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.2847 East, latitude 49.2404 North, depth = 566.43 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 566.43 km (352 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000ak2w. Event ids that are associated: us2000ak2w.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 123 km WNW of Vostok, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.2847° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.2404° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	566.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	123km WNW 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	2017-09-11 14:04:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 14:09:26	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	3.795	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	90	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	us2000ak2w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ak2w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ak2w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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