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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 53.4521S, 160.7593WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 148 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (92 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003gtu. Unique identifier: us70003gtu. Exact location of event, longitude 160.7593 East, latitude 53.4521 North, depth = 61.77 km. The temblor was detected at 08:58:00 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 61.77 km (38 miles). Global time and date of event 04/05/19 / 2019-05-04 21:58:00 / May 4, 2019 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT. 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 148 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 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7593° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km 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 2019-05-04 21:58:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-04 23:04:08 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 271 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 1.338 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70003gtu Id of event.
Event Code 70003gtu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003gtu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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