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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia

Posted by admin on October 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.7542S, 162.0301WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:52:48 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 162.0301 East, latitude 56.7542 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h6f3. Id of event: us1000h6f3. Global time and date of event 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 17:52:48 / October 3, 2018 @ 5:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 64 km NNW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.0301° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.7542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNW 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 2018-10-03 17:52:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 18:11:45 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 369 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 4.217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us1000h6f3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h6f3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h6f3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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