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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Uglegorsk in Russia


Earthquake location 48.8946S, 142.1828WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Uglegorsk in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 14:09:02 / September 13, 2020 @ 2:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bmq2. Unique identifier: us7000bmq2. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:09:02 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 142.1828 East, latitude 48.8946 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Poronaysk, Makarov, Shakhtersk (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Poronaysk (c. 16 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Uglegorsk (c. 12 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Shakhtersk (c. 10 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Makarov (c. 6 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km SSE of Uglegorsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1828° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.8946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km SSE of Uglegorsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-13 14:09:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-13 14:39:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 326 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 1.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us7000bmq2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bmq2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmq2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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