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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.8309S, 166.1747WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 42 km SSE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (26 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 166.1747 East, latitude 54.8309 North, depth = 20.69 km. Global time and date of event 04/04/20 / 2020-04-04 06:18:25 / April 4, 2020 @ 6:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:18:25 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70008nel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008nel. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.69 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 42 km SSE of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.1747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SSE of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-04 06:18:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-04 06:36:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 5.354 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 4.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008nel Id of event.
Event Code 70008nel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008nel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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