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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Tiksi in Russia

Posted by admin on January 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 71.9898S, 127.7396WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Tiksi in Russia on Tuesday. Event id: us2000cqxp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cqxp. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:04 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.35 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 07:46:04 / January 16, 2018 @ 7:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 127.7396° East, latitude 71.9898° North, depth = 15.35 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tiksi (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tiksi.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km NW of Tiksi, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.7396° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 71.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NW of Tiksi, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 07:46:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 08:43:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 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 us2000cqxp Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqxp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqxp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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