Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 163 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (101 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:28:46 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 11:28:46 / January 15, 2018 @ 11:28 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000cpxw. Event ids that are associated: us2000cpxw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.2 km (23 miles). Exact location, longitude 168.2417° East, latitude 54.5114° North, depth = 37.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 163 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	168.2417° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5114° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	163km 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	2018-01-15 11:28:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-30 08:25:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	246	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	3.919	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us2000cpxw	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cpxw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cpxw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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