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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 56.3021S, 164.0659WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 98 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (61 miles). Event id: us70004b7k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004b7k. Exact location, longitude 164.0659° East, latitude 56.3021° North, depth = 33.02 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/19 / 2019-07-05 16:19:37 / July 5, 2019 @ 4:19 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:19:37 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.02 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 98 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.0659° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km 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 2019-07-05 16:19:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-28 16:01:05 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 4.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us70004b7k Id of event.
Event Code 70004b7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004b7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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