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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 64 km SE of Ulaangom, Mongolia


Earthquake location 49.556S, 92.6752WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ulaangom in Mongolia. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:21:17 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.6752 East, latitude 49.556 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 21:21:17 / December 27, 2020 @ 9:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d6ex. Unique identifier: us6000d6ex.

Close country/countries, Mongolia (c. 3 087 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ulaangom. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Ulaangom (c. 28 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 64 km SE of Ulaangom, Mongolia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.6752° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km SE of Ulaangom, Mongolia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-27 21:21:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-14 05:40:31 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 298 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 6.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000d6ex Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6ex An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6ex, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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