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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Shikotan in Russia

Posted by admin on December 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.9893S, 147.8393WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 127 km SE of Shikotan, Russia (79 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:52:05 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 14:52:05 / December 5, 2019 @ 2:52 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65.45 km (41 miles). Event id: us60006mew. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006mew. Exact location, longitude 147.8393° East, latitude 42.9893° North, depth = 65.45 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 127 km SE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8393° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km SE 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 2019-12-05 14:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 16:10:21 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 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 3.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us60006mew Id of event.
Event Code 60006mew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006mew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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