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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Shikotan in Russia


Earthquake location 43.1332S, 146.5954WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Shikotan in Russia on Monday. The temblor was detected at 09:09:05 / 9:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 23:09:05 / March 13, 2016 @ 11:09 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.29 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 146.5954 East, latitude 43.1332 North, depth = 51.29 km. Event id: us20005afu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005afu.

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km S of Shikotan, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.5954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.1332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km S of Shikotan, 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 23:09:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 00:03:28 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 312 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 2.774 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us20005afu Id of event.
Event Code 20005afu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005afu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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