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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.197S, 169.427WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 247 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (153 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 00:56:22 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009z8k. Unique identifier: us20009z8k. Exact location of earthquake, 169.427° East, 54.197° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/17 / 2017-07-18 13:56:22 / July 18, 2017 @ 1:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 247 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km 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 2017-07-18 13:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-31 21:06:23 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 246 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 3.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us20009z8k Id of event.
Event Code 20009z8k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009z8k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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