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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Lorino in Russia


Earthquake location 66.4996S, -173.3828WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 134 km NNW of Lorino, Russia (83 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -173.3828° West, latitude 66.4996° North, depth = 18.99 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 06:35:06 / April 9, 2020 @ 6:35 am. The temblor was detected at 18:35:06 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008yl1. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0204lhitle, us70008yl1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.99 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 134 km NNW of Lorino, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.3828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.4996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km NNW of Lorino, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-09 06:35:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 11:46:44 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 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 148 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 ,ak,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 2.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008yl1 Id of event.
Event Code 70008yl1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0204lhitle,us70008yl1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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