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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 292 km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia


Earthquake location 52.3897S, 152.5067WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 292 km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia (181 miles). Exact location, longitude 152.5067° East, latitude 52.3897° North, depth = 488.18 km. Global time and date of event 08/08/19 / 2019-08-08 08:25:30 / August 8, 2019 @ 8:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 488.18 km (303 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:25:30 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us600055vr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600055vr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 292 km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.5067° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 488.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 292km WNW of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-08 08:25:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-05 05:52:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 259 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 3.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us600055vr Id of event.
Event Code 600055vr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600055vr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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