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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kichera in Russia


Earthquake location 55.7726S, 110.1424WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Kichera in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/11/15 / 2015-11-27 00:13:55 / November 27, 2015 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 110.1424 East, latitude 55.7726 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fyf. Id of event: us20004fyf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:13:55 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (33 miles) from Severobaykal’sk (c. 25 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Nizhneangarsk (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Severobaykal’sk, Nizhneangarsk.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km S of Kichera, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 110.1424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S of Kichera, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-27 00:13:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-12 23:23:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 259 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 5.627 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20004fyf Id of event.
Event Code 20004fyf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fyf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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