Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Vostok in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 175 km SSE of Vostok, Russia (109 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 20:26:43 / November 19, 2018 @ 8:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 239.15 km (149 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 149.6349 East, latitude 47.4133 North, depth = 239.15 km. The temblor was reported at 06:26:43 / 6:26 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hx0s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hx0s.

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 two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 175 km SSE of Vostok, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.6349° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.4133° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	239.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	175km SSE 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	2018-11-19 20:26:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-10 15:52:59	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	284	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	5.925	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	us1000hx0s	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hx0s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hx0s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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