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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 145 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia


Earthquake location 53.872S, 160.3434WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 145 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (90 miles) on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004wqp. Id of event: us60004wqp. The epicenter was at a depth of 72.22 km (45 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 160.3434° East, latitude 53.872° North, depth = 72.22 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:53:07 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/19 / 2019-07-28 09:53:07 / July 28, 2019 @ 9:53 am.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 145 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3434° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.872° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km NE 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 2019-07-28 09:53:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-28 10:14:06 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 298 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 1.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us60004wqp Id of event.
Event Code 60004wqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004wqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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