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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 21 km SW of Kyzyl-Khaya, Russia


Earthquake location 49.9131S, 89.6643WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kyzyl-Khaya in Russia on Wednesday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:45:48 / 1:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/16 / 2016-07-13 06:45:48 / July 13, 2016 @ 6:45 am. Exact location of event, longitude 89.6643 East, latitude 49.9131 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000636v. Unique identifier: us1000636v.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kosh-Agach (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Kosh-Agach (c. 5 700 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 21 km SW of Kyzyl-Khaya, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 89.6643° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SW of Kyzyl-Khaya, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-13 06:45:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-13 07:14:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 354 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 5.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us1000636v Id of event.
Event Code 1000636v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000636v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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