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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 47.9549S, 145.9385WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 243 km WSW of Vostok, Russia (151 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us70009fe5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fe5. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:01:25 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 01:01:25 / May 6, 2020 @ 1:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.9385 East, latitude 47.9549 North, depth = 460.86 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 460.86 km (286 miles).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 243 km WSW of Vostok, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9385° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.9549° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 460.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 243km WSW 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 2020-05-06 01:01:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-21 05:52:45 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 246 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 2.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us70009fe5 Id of event.
Event Code 70009fe5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fe5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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