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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.4241S, 164.3675WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 135 km SW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (84 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/18 / 2018-12-24 13:24:18 / December 24, 2018 @ 1:24 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j308. Id of event: us2000j308. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:24:18 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 164.3675 East, latitude 54.4241 North, depth = 10 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days eighty-eight, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 135 km SW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.3675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km SW 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 2018-12-24 13:24:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 17:19:53 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 4.17 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us2000j308 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j308 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j308, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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