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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Yelizovo in Russia


Earthquake location 53.9636S, 158.6398WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 18:42:53 / March 13, 2016 @ 6:42 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 158.6398° East, 53.9636° North, depth 159.45 km. The temblor was reported at 06:42:53 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004x88. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004x88. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 159.45 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km N of Yelizovo, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.6398° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.9636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km N 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 2016-03-13 18:42:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-13 19:40:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 340 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 0.942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us10004x88 Id of event.
Event Code 10004x88 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004x88, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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