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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on January 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.8244S, 164.3619WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (70 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:37:14 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 164.3619 East, latitude 54.8244 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 05:37:14 / December 23, 2018 @ 5:37 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000j2wj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j2wj.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 fifty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 112 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.3619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8244° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2018-12-23 05:37:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-18 08:18:21 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 3.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us2000j2wj Id of event.
Event Code 2000j2wj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j2wj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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