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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hovd in Mongolia


Earthquake location 44.5839S, 101.2888WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hovd in Mongolia on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000cs1c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cs1c. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.97 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/20 / 2020-11-20 17:52:34 / November 20, 2020 @ 5:52 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 101.2888 East, latitude 44.5839 North, depth = 15.97 km. The temblor was detected at 17:52:34 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Hovd (c. 27 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hovd (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Mongolia (c. 3 087 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 70 km W of Hovd, Mongolia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 101.2888° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5839° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km W of Hovd, Mongolia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-20 17:52:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-19 18:01:26 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 4.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us6000cs1c Id of event.
Event Code 6000cs1c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cs1c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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