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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Severomuysk in Russia


Earthquake location 55.8611S, 114.1065WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Severomuysk in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 114.1065 East, latitude 55.8611 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 11:37:12 / November 22, 2016 @ 11:37 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007be9. Id of event: us10007be9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:37:12 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taksimo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Taksimo (c. 10 400 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 53 km SE of Severomuysk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 114.1065° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SE of Severomuysk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-22 11:37:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-22 12:11:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 9.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us10007be9 Id of event.
Event Code 10007be9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007be9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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