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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Atlasovo in Russia


Earthquake location 55.2073S, 160.9422WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 93 km ESE of Atlasovo, Russia (58 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000b2tw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b2tw. The epicenter was at a depth of 110.64 km (69 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:38:29 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.9422 East, latitude 55.2073 North, depth = 110.64 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 17:38:29 / July 17, 2020 @ 5:38 pm.

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-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 93 km ESE of Atlasovo, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.9422° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.2073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93 km ESE of Atlasovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-17 17:38:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-14 17:25:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 2.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us6000b2tw Id of event.
Event Code 6000b2tw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b2tw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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