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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 48.3527S, 146.3218WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 200 km WSW of Vostok, Russia (124 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/18 / 2018-07-07 05:42:16 / July 7, 2018 @ 5:42 am. Unique identifier: us2000fyyt. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fyyt. The temblor was detected at 15:42:16 / 3:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 480.19 km (298 miles). Exact location, longitude 146.3218° East, latitude 48.3527° North, depth = 480.19 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 200 km WSW of Vostok, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.3218° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.3527° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 480.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 200km WSW of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-07 05:42:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-07 06:02:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 2.782 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us2000fyyt Id of event.
Event Code 2000fyyt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fyyt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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