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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Russia-Mongolia border region


Earthquake location 51.4852S, 100.5121WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Russia-Mongolia border region kilometers (0 miles) from Russia-Mongolia border region. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 100.5121 East, latitude 51.4852 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 21:41:04 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d1qx. Id of event: us7000d1qx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/01/21 / 2021-01-11 21:41:04 / January 11, 2021 @ 9:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 115 km (71 miles) from Kyren (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kyren. Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: Russia-Mongolia border region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.5121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4852° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Russia-Mongolia border region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-11 21:41:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-21 04:24:26 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 518 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 1.963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000d1qx Id of event.
Event Code 7000d1qx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d1qx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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