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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Mugur-Aksy in Russia


Earthquake location 50.4905S, 91.0158WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Mugur-Aksy in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003eyd. Id of event: us70003eyd. Exact location of event, longitude 91.0158 East, latitude 50.4905 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 23:46:25 / April 30, 2019 @ 11:46 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:46:25 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ulaangom, Ak-Dovurak, Kyzyl-Mazhalyk. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Ulaangom (c. 28 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ak-Dovurak (c. 12 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kyzyl-Mazhalyk (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Mongolia (c. 3 087 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km ENE of Mugur-Aksy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 91.0158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.4905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ENE of Mugur-Aksy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-30 23:46:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-01 00:26:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 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 298 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 5.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us70003eyd Id of event.
Event Code 70003eyd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003eyd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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