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Light earthquake 4 mag, 22 km ENE of Severomuysk, Russia


Earthquake location 56.189S, 113.7833WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Severomuysk in Russia. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:13:19 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndax. Unique identifier: us7000ndax. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 01:13:19 / August 20, 2024 @ 1:13 am. 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 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 113.7833 East, latitude 56.189 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taksimo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Taksimo (c. 10 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 22 km ENE of Severomuysk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.7833° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km ENE of Severomuysk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-20 01:13:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-15 23:51:33 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us7000ndax Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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