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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Severnaya Zemlya


Earthquake location 85.1276S, 94.6283WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, North of Severnaya Zemlya (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 22:01:58 / March 26, 2019 @ 10:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 94.6283° East, 85.1276° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jm38. Unique identifier: us1000jm38. The temblor was reported at 04:01:58 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: North of Severnaya Zemlya.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6283° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 85.1276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place North of Severnaya Zemlya Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-26 22:01:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-30 21:35:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 298 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 11.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000jm38 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jm38 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jm38, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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