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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen


Earthquake location 71.3711S, -9.0895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -9.0895 West, latitude 71.3711 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hqpx. Unique identifier: us1000hqpx. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:54:58 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/11/18 / 2018-11-12 01:54:58 / November 12, 2018 @ 1:54 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Olonkinbyen (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (c. 3 000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Olonkinbyen (c. 0 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km NNW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -9.0895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 71.3711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NNW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-12 01:54:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-12 02:17:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -60 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 298 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 4.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us1000hqpx Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqpx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqpx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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