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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 55.0005S, 164.4934WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 98 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (61 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 22:09:36 / December 20, 2018 @ 10:09 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000ivlk. Event ids that are associated: us2000ivlk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 164.4934 East, latitude 55.0005 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:09:36 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 98 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.4934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km WSW 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 2018-12-20 22:09:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 22:44:14 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 326 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 3.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us2000ivlk Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivlk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivlk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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