Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Dagestanskiye Ogni in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Dagestanskiye Ogni in Russia on Saturday. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:06:58 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 48.2636° East, 42.1575° North. Id of earthquake: us6000d53c. Event ids that are associated: us6000d53c. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/21 / 2021-01-02 22:06:58 / January 2, 2021 @ 10:06 pm UTC/GMT. 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).

Event epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Derbent (c. 106 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Izberbash (c. 42 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Xaçmaz (c. 37 200 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Dagestanskiye Ogni (c. 27 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Belidzhi (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Qusar (c. 16 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Akhty, Xaçmaz, Karabudakhkent (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	48.2636° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.1575° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km NE of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-02 22:06:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-02 22:25:02	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	246	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	3.332	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us6000d53c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d53c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d53c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

48.2636° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

42.1575° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

7 km NE of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Russia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2021-01-02 22:06:58

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2021-01-02 22:25:02

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

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

246

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

3.332

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.37 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000d53c

Id of event.

Event Code

6000d53c

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000d53c,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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