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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Artyshta in Russia


Earthquake location 54.0404S, 86.1075WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Artyshta in Russia. Unique identifier: us6000c90v. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c90v. Exact location of event, longitude 86.1075 East, latitude 54.0404 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/20 / 2020-10-17 17:21:09 / October 17, 2020 @ 5:21 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:21:09 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Novokuznetsk (c. 539 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Prokop’yevsk (c. 219 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Leninsk-Kuznetsky (c. 109 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kiselëvsk (c. 104 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Belovo (c. 75 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Zarinsk (c. 52 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Osinniki (c. 48 900 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tayzhina, Osinniki, Kaltan.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 15 km SW of Artyshta, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 86.1075° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.0404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km SW of Artyshta, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-17 17:21:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-17 18:26:33 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 340 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 0.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us6000c90v Id of event.
Event Code 6000c90v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c90v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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