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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Kaltan in Russia


Earthquake location 53.515S, 87.1684WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kaltan in Russia. Id of earthquake: us20007zfb. Event ids that are associated: us20007zfb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:25:57 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.33 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 08:25:57 / December 9, 2016 @ 8:25 am. Exact location, longitude 87.1684° East, latitude 53.515° North, depth = 15.33 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sheregesh, Krasnobrodskiy, Kiselëvsk (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Novokuznetsk (c. 539 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Prokop’yevsk (c. 219 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kiselëvsk (c. 104 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mezhdurechensk (c. 101 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Osinniki (c. 48 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Myski (c. 44 100 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 5 km WSW of Kaltan, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.1684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW of Kaltan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-09 08:25:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 14:03:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 284 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 1.461 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20007zfb Id of event.
Event Code 20007zfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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