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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 46.4302S, 136.0854WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 km ESE of Vostok, Russia (10 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 433.56 km (269 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:34:41 / 12:34 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/15 / 2015-11-14 14:34:41 / November 14, 2015 @ 2:34 pm. Event id: us10003yci. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yci. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 136.0854 East, latitude 46.4302 North, depth = 433.56 km.

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 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 16 km ESE of Vostok, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 136.0854° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.4302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 433.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE 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 2015-11-14 14:34:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-14 15:16:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 3.65 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10003yci Id of event.
Event Code 10003yci An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yci, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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