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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Rimswell in United Kingdom


Earthquake location 53.7615S, 0.0057WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Rimswell in United Kingdom. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 0.0057° East, 53.7615° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 22:14:25 / June 9, 2018 @ 10:14 pm. Unique identifier: us1000emw5. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000emw5. The temblor was detected at 22:14:25 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United Kingdom (c. 62 348 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Hull (c. 302 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from York (c. 144 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Lincoln (c. 89 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Scunthorpe (c. 72 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Doncaster (c. 67 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Castleford (c. 39 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Castleford, Boston Spa, Sleaford.

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 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.

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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: 2 km NNE of Rimswell, United Kingdom. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 0.0057° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7615° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNE of Rimswell, United Kingdom Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-09 22:14:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-10 22:17:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 24 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 256 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 2.434 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us1000emw5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000emw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000emw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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