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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 155 km SE of Mil’kovo, Russia


Earthquake location 53.8693S, 160.5518WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 155 km SE of Mil’kovo, Russia (96 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 16:57:07 / December 3, 2024 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000nvpl. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvpl. The temblor was picked up at 16:57:07 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.77 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.5518 East, latitude 53.8693 North, depth = 62.77 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 155 km SE of Mil’kovo, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.5518° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.8693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155 km SE of Mil’kovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-03 16:57:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-03 19:17:33 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 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 150 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us7000nvpl Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvpl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvpl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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