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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Chara in Russia


Earthquake location 57.4929S, 120.7969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 166 km ENE of Chara, Russia (103 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.73 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 120.7969° East, latitude 57.4929° North, depth = 9.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/18 / 2018-04-12 06:06:15 / April 12, 2018 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000dyn3. Event ids that are associated: us2000dyn3. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:06:15 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter).

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. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 166 km ENE of Chara, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.7969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.4929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166km ENE of Chara, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-12 06:06:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-12 06:38:30 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 340 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 6.388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us2000dyn3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000dyn3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dyn3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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