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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Shikotan in Russia


Earthquake location 43.3256S, 147.6638WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 92 km SE of Shikotan, Russia (57 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 00:35:19 / 12:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.55 km (28 miles). Exact location, longitude 147.6638° East, latitude 43.3256° North, depth = 44.55 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 14:35:19 / December 5, 2019 @ 2:35 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006mer. Unique identifier: us60006mer.

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 twelve, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 92 km SE of Shikotan, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km 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 14:35:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 16:00:16 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 354 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 3.571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us60006mer Id of event.
Event Code 60006mer An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006mer, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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