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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 53.8735S, 160.5461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 156 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (97 miles). Event id: us1000bmb1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmb1. Global time and date of event 05/12/17 / 2017-12-05 09:06:07 / December 5, 2017 @ 9:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:06:07 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.5461 East, latitude 53.8735 North, depth = 62.63 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.63 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 156 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.5461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.8735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 156km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-05 09:06:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-05 10:23:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 340 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 1.418 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 134 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 us1000bmb1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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