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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Severomuysk in Russia


Earthquake location 55.9785S, 113.9327WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Severomuysk in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:49:56 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 113.9327 East, latitude 55.9785 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ccs4. Unique identifier: us7000ccs4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/11/20 / 2020-11-10 06:49:56 / November 10, 2020 @ 6:49 am.

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Taksimo (c. 10 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taksimo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 36 km ESE of Severomuysk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 113.9327° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km ESE of Severomuysk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-10 06:49:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 09:27:58 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 312 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 7.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us7000ccs4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ccs4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ccs4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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