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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 207 km SE of Atlasovo, Russia


Earthquake location 54.225S, 161.8242WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 207 km SE of Atlasovo, Russia (129 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:17:13 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 10:17:13 / September 8, 2024 @ 10:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.672 km (39 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000nqg6. Event ids that are associated: us6000nqg6. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.8242 East, latitude 54.225 North, depth = 62.672 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 207 km SE of Atlasovo, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.8242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.672 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207 km SE of Atlasovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-08 10:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-08 10:56:28 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 369 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us6000nqg6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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