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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Esso in Russia


Earthquake location 54.4699S, 160.697WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 206 km SE of Esso, Russia (128 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/17 / 2017-05-17 06:21:11 / May 17, 2017 @ 6:21 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008sy9. Id of event: us10008sy9. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:11 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 108.16 km (67 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.697 East, latitude 54.4699 North, depth = 108.16 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days nine 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 206 km SE of Esso, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.697° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 206km SE of Esso, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-17 06:21:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-17 07:24:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 340 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 1.891 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10008sy9 Id of event.
Event Code 10008sy9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008sy9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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