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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Smolyaninovo in Russia


Earthquake location 43.4726S, 132.8005WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Smolyaninovo in Russia. The temblor was picked up at 16:15:43 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000cnln. Event ids that are associated: us2000cnln. The epicenter was at a depth of 481.59 km (299 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 132.8005 East, latitude 43.4726 North, depth = 481.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 06:15:43 / January 24, 2018 @ 6:15 am.

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Vladivostok (c. 587 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ussuriysk (c. 157 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Nakhodka (c. 146 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Artëm (c. 102 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arsen’yev (c. 58 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Partizansk (c. 42 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yaroslavskiy, Russkiy, Vrangel’ (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 33 km NE of Smolyaninovo, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 132.8005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 481.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NE of Smolyaninovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-24 06:15:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-29 13:48:42 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 284 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 0.934 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us2000cnln Id of event.
Event Code 2000cnln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cnln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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