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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 113 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia


Earthquake location 56.1951S, 164.308WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 113 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (70 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/19 / 2019-06-27 04:20:48 / June 27, 2019 @ 4:20 am. Exact location of event, longitude 164.308 East, latitude 56.1951 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us700045r4. Event ids that are associated: us700045r4. The temblor was picked up at 15:20:48 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 113 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.308° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km E 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 2019-06-27 04:20:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-27 04:42:27 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 4.231 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 4.573 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700045r4 Id of event.
Event Code 700045r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700045r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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