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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Ozernovskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 51.0762S, 158.4451WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 142 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia (88 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.4451 East, latitude 51.0762 North, depth = 51.19 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000iy6m. Unique identifier: us2000iy6m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.19 km (32 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 18:54:42 / December 27, 2018 @ 6:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:54:42 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 142 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.4451° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-27 18:54:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-27 20:16:39 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 1.954 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 us2000iy6m Id of event.
Event Code 2000iy6m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iy6m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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