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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 54.3706S, 162.7732WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 207 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (129 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 29.6 km (18 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:50:20 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 162.7732° East, 54.3706° North, depth 29.6 km. Global time and date of event 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 22:50:20 / March 20, 2016 @ 10:50 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20005bbh. Ids that are associated to the event: pt16080052, us20005bbh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 207 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.7732° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207km S of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-20 22:50:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 23:11:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 4.42 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 670 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 ,pt,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 2.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005bbh Id of event.
Event Code 20005bbh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt16080052,us20005bbh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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