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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 48.4279S, 149.1483WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 km SSE of Vostok, Russia (35 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 394.62 km (245 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10004e08. Event ids that are associated: us10004e08. Exact location of event, longitude 149.1483 East, latitude 48.4279 North, depth = 394.62 km. The temblor was detected at 00:32:46 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 14:32:46 / January 4, 2016 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km SSE of Vostok, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.1483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.4279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 394.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSE of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-04 14:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-31 21:51:56 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 259 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 4.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us10004e08 Id of event.
Event Code 10004e08 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004e08, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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