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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Tymovskoye in Russia


Earthquake location 50.4543S, 142.3168WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Tymovskoye in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 142.3168 East, latitude 50.4543 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:23:08 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 08:23:08 / August 15, 2016 @ 8:23 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10006dw2. Event ids that are associated: us10006dw2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Smirnykh, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Tymovskoye. Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (c. 12 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tymovskoye (c. 8 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Smirnykh (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 49 km SSW of Tymovskoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.3168° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.4543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SSW of Tymovskoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-15 08:23:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 08:43:51 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 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 3.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us10006dw2 Id of event.
Event Code 10006dw2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dw2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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