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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Severomuysk in Russia


Earthquake location 56.1964S, 113.755WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Severomuysk in Russia. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:22:32 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 14:22:32 / March 22, 2017 @ 2:22 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.59 km (9 miles). Id of earthquake: us20008vme. Event ids that are associated: us20008vme. Exact location of event, longitude 113.755 East, latitude 56.1964 North, depth = 14.59 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Taksimo (c. 10 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taksimo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Severomuysk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.755° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1964° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE 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 2017-03-22 14:22:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-12 06:01:25 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 259 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 7.828 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 109 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 us20008vme Id of event.
Event Code 20008vme An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008vme, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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