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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 53.9661S, 169.4259WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 260 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (162 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 15:54:57 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 169.4259° East, 53.9661° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a2md. Id of event: us2000a2md. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 04:54:57 / July 30, 2017 @ 4:54 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 ten, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 260 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.9661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km ESE 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 2017-07-30 04:54:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-30 05:36:25 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 6.5 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 142 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 us2000a2md Id of event.
Event Code 2000a2md An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a2md, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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