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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Yelizovo in Russia


Earthquake location 53.6917S, 155.2777WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 213 km WNW of Yelizovo, Russia (132 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 21:01:21 / August 10, 2015 @ 9:01 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:21 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 398.18 km (247 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 155.2777° East, 53.6917° North, depth 398.18 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100035b1. Unique identifier: us100035b1.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 213 km WNW of Yelizovo, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.2777° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 398.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 213km WNW of Yelizovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-10 21:01:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-28 05:17:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.563 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us100035b1 Id of event.
Event Code 100035b1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100035b1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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