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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.878S, 162.5192WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 39 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (24 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000dvhl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dvhl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 00:14:31 / March 29, 2018 @ 12:14 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:14:31 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.32 km (36 miles). Exact location, longitude 162.5192° East, latitude 55.878° North, depth = 57.32 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.5192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km 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 2018-03-29 00:14:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 22:05:07 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 246 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 3.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000dvhl Id of event.
Event Code 2000dvhl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dvhl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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