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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Yelizovo in Russia


Earthquake location 54.0296S, 158.53WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. Exact location, longitude 158.53° East, latitude 54.0296° North, depth = 167.68 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 167.68 km (104 miles). Unique identifier: us20005b8r. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005b8r. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:18:46 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 15:18:46 / March 20, 2016 @ 3:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 94 km N of Yelizovo, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.53° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.0296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 167.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2016-03-20 15:18:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 16:48:22 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 298 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 1.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20005b8r Id of event.
Event Code 20005b8r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005b8r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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