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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 123 km ESE of Esso, Russia


Earthquake location 55.5432S, 160.534WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 123 kilometers (76 miles) from Esso in Russia on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 00:04:35 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 144.15 km (90 miles). Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 12:04:35 / April 29, 2019 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003dyv. Unique identifier: us70003dyv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.534 East, latitude 55.5432 North, depth = 144.15 km.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 123 km ESE of Esso, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.534° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.5432° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ESE of Esso, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 12:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 13:03:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 2.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us70003dyv Id of event.
Event Code 70003dyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003dyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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