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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ust’-Nera in Russia


Earthquake location 65.1008S, 143.9184WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Ust’-Nera in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.9184 East, latitude 65.1008 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:41:07 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000j9bx. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j9bx. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 01:41:07 / January 27, 2019 @ 1:41 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ust-Nera. Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Ust-Nera (c. 9 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km NNE of Ust’-Nera, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.9184° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.1008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NNE of Ust'-Nera, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-27 01:41:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-27 01:57:46 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 312 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 6.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000j9bx Id of event.
Event Code 2000j9bx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j9bx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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