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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 48.5052S, 152.8598WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 294 km E of Vostok, Russia (183 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.96 km (87 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:11:49 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jnz6. Id of event: us2000jnz6. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 08:11:49 / February 15, 2019 @ 8:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 139.96 km, 152.8598° East, 48.5052° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 294 km E of Vostok, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.8598° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.5052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 294km E of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-15 08:11:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-07 09:24:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 5.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us2000jnz6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jnz6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jnz6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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