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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tyube in Russia


Earthquake location 43.071S, 47.1975WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tyube in Russia. Exact location, longitude 47.1975° East, latitude 43.071° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:34:05 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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: us60003rxg. Unique identifier: us60003rxg. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/05/19 / 2019-05-24 22:34:05 / May 24, 2019 @ 10:34 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Makhachkala (c. 498 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Khasavyurt (c. 126 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kaspiysk (c. 81 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Buynaksk (c. 62 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kizlyar (c. 50 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Izberbash (c. 42 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Kizilyurt (c. 33 400 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kayakent, Kizlyar, Kargalinskaya (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km WNW of Tyube, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 47.1975° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WNW of Tyube, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-24 22:34:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-24 22:59:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 3.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us60003rxg Id of event.
Event Code 60003rxg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rxg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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