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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ozernovskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 52.9327S, 152.8375WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 297 km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia (185 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/19 / 2019-09-14 18:14:31 / September 14, 2019 @ 6:14 pm. Id of earthquake: us70005gf6. Event ids that are associated: us70005gf6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 495.01 km (308 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:14:31 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 152.8375 East, latitude 52.9327 North, depth = 495.01 km.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 297 km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.8375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 495.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 297km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-14 18:14:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-14 19:13:48 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 271 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 2.941 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us70005gf6 Id of event.
Event Code 70005gf6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gf6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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