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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.2046S, 169.0403WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 225 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (140 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15.14 km, 169.0403° East, 54.2046° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009z5y. Unique identifier: us20009z5y. The temblor was picked up at 00:17:42 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.14 km (9 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/17 / 2017-07-18 13:17:42 / July 18, 2017 @ 1:17 pm.

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 thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 225 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.0403° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.2046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225km 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 13:17:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-31 15:41:03 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 3.366 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us20009z5y Id of event.
Event Code 20009z5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009z5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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