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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on January 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.8893S, 164.5322WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 99 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (62 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:23 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000j21j. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j21j. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 164.5322° East, 54.8893° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 22:31:23 / December 21, 2018 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-five, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 99 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.5322° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km 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 2018-12-21 22:31:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-12 03:09:38 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 271 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 3.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us2000j21j Id of event.
Event Code 2000j21j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j21j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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