Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kozyrëvsk in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kozyrëvsk in Russia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.1074 East, latitude 56.1155 North, depth = 131.68 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131.68 km (82 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:51:01 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/20 / 2020-10-17 15:51:01 / October 17, 2020 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cbc5. Unique identifier: us6000cbc5.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km ENE of Kozyrëvsk, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.1074° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.1155° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	131.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km ENE of Kozyrëvsk, 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 15:51:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-24 19:10:27	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	3.212	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us6000cbc5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cbc5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cbc5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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