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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 47.5201S, 146.6365WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 228 km SW of Vostok, Russia (142 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007ipl. Unique identifier: us70007ipl. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:47:30 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 389.12 km (242 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.6365 East, latitude 47.5201 North, depth = 389.12 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 22:47:30 / February 4, 2020 @ 10:47 pm.

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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 228 km SW of Vostok, Russia. This information 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 146.6365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.5201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 389.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 228km SW 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 2020-02-04 22:47:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 23:26:21 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 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 2.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us70007ipl Id of event.
Event Code 70007ipl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007ipl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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