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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.2139S, 159.3355WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 101 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (63 miles). Exact location, longitude 159.3355° East, latitude 52.2139° North, depth = 72.28 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003dgv. Id of event: us70003dgv. The temblor was detected at 04:33:34 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.28 km (45 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 17:33:34 / April 28, 2019 @ 5:33 pm UTC/GMT.

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 five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.3355° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-28 17:33:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 20:06:33 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 312 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 0.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us70003dgv Id of event.
Event Code 70003dgv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003dgv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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