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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 53.2474S, 159.8081WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia. Exact location, longitude 159.8081° East, latitude 53.2474° North, depth = 67.02 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.02 km (42 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 02:44:58 / January 4, 2018 @ 2:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:44:58 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000c0ju. Event ids that are associated: us1000c0ju.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8081° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.2474° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km ENE 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 2018-01-04 02:44:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-04 03:01:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 432 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 0.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us1000c0ju Id of event.
Event Code 1000c0ju An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c0ju, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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