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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.3854S, 168.6941WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 195 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (121 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 168.6941 East, latitude 54.3854 North, depth = 35.54 km. The temblor was reported at 08:22:23 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/18 / 2018-05-31 21:22:23 / May 31, 2018 @ 9:22 pm. Event id: us1000efx6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000efx6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.54 km (22 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 195 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 195km 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 2018-05-31 21:22:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-31 21:46:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 312 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 6.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us1000efx6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000efx6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000efx6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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