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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Kiruna in Sweden


Earthquake location 67.8598S, 20.2993WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kiruna in Sweden. Event id: us70009ja2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009ja2. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:11:57 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/20 / 2020-05-18 01:11:57 / May 18, 2020 @ 1:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 20.2993 East, latitude 67.8598 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Sweden (c. 9 556 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 3 km (2 miles) from Kiruna (c. 18 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Gällivare (c. 8 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Malmberget (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gällivare, Malmberget, Kiruna (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km E of Kiruna, Sweden. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 20.2993° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 67.8598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Kiruna, Sweden Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-18 01:11:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-18 01:34:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 369 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 2.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us70009ja2 Id of event.
Event Code 70009ja2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009ja2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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