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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 55.2259S, 164.7903WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 76 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (47 miles). Id of earthquake: us10007edx. Event ids that are associated: us10007edx. The temblor was reported at 22:08:06 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.95 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/11/16 / 2016-11-26 11:08:06 / November 26, 2016 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 164.7903 East, latitude 55.2259 North, depth = 33.95 km.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.7903° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.2259° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km W 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 2016-11-26 11:08:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 07:00:31 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 271 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 4.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us10007edx Id of event.
Event Code 10007edx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007edx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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