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

Posted by admin on December 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.3584S, 148.0642WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 119 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia (74 miles). Exact location of event, depth 21.78 km, 148.0642° East, 43.3584° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60006ly4. Event ids that are associated: us60006ly4. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:50:16 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/12/19 / 2019-12-04 10:50:16 / December 4, 2019 @ 10:50 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.78 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 119 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.0642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km ESE 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 2019-12-04 10:50:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-04 11:43:34 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 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 3.858 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 181 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 us60006ly4 Id of event.
Event Code 60006ly4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006ly4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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