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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Shikotan in Russia


Earthquake location 43.2419S, 146.6787WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Shikotan in Russia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 02:16:07 / October 27, 2019 @ 2:16 am. Id of earthquake: us700063gc. Event ids that are associated: us700063gc. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:16:07 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.6787 East, latitude 43.2419 North, depth = 58.44 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 58.44 km (36 miles).

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nemuro (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km S of Shikotan, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.6787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km S of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-27 02:16:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-06 03:26:21 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 284 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 2.873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us700063gc Id of event.
Event Code 700063gc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063gc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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