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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Otrada in Russia


Earthquake location 44.0576S, 146.281WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Otrada in Russia. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006t9g. Unique identifier: us60006t9g. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:28:23 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/19 / 2019-12-11 17:28:23 / December 11, 2019 @ 5:28 pm. Exact location of event, depth 171.53 km, 146.281° East, 44.0576° North. 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 171.53 km (107 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km E of Otrada, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.281° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.0576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km E of Otrada, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-11 17:28:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-26 23:06:23 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 259 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 2.658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us60006t9g Id of event.
Event Code 60006t9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006t9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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