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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 47.9137S, 152.4298WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 284 km ESE of Vostok, Russia (176 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/03/19 / 2019-03-29 17:09:18 / March 29, 2019 @ 5:09 pm. Unique identifier: us2000k78l. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000k78l. The epicenter was at a depth of 113.3 km (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.4298 East, latitude 47.9137 North, depth = 113.3 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:09:18 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 284 km ESE of Vostok, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.4298° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.9137° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km ESE 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 2019-03-29 17:09:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-29 19:57:18 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 284 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 6.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us2000k78l Id of event.
Event Code 2000k78l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k78l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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