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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 55.6377S, 164.5414WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 104 km WNW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (65 miles). 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 33.4 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 164.5414° East, latitude 55.6377° North, depth = 33.4 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:42:25 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007cwp. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007cwp. Global time and date of event 28/11/16 / 2016-11-28 09:42:25 / November 28, 2016 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT.

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 five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 104 km WNW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.5414° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.6377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104km WNW of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-28 09:42:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-28 11:20:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 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 4.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us10007cwp Id of event.
Event Code 10007cwp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007cwp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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