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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Staryy Urukh in Russia


Earthquake location 43.3755S, 44.0588WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Staryy Urukh in Russia. Exact location, longitude 44.0588° East, latitude 43.3755° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 02:48:02 / June 2, 2024 @ 2:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mpjz. Unique identifier: us7000mpjz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:48:02 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Znamenskoye, Assinovskaya, Tyrnyauz. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Vladikavkaz (c. 317 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Nal’chik (c. 272 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Nazran’ (c. 164 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ordzhonikidzevskaya (c. 71 800 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Prokhladnyy (c. 60 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Staryy Malgobek (c. 46 300 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NE of Staryy Urukh, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 44.0588° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NE of Staryy Urukh, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-02 02:48:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-02 04:36:55 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us7000mpjz Id of event.
Event Code 7000mpjz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mpjz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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