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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 47.6937S, 147.6894WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 162 km SW of Vostok, Russia (101 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:59:33 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.6894 East, latitude 47.6937 North, depth = 365.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009epd. Id of event: us70009epd. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 12:59:33 / May 12, 2020 @ 12:59 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 365.09 km (227 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four 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. 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: 162 km SW of Vostok, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.6894° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.6937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 365.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km SW of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-12 12:59:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 13:28:42 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 5.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us70009epd Id of event.
Event Code 70009epd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009epd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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