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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.7635S, 161.1867WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 06:50:07 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/19 / 2019-11-08 18:50:07 / November 8, 2019 @ 6:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 161.1867° East, 55.7635° North, depth 104.49 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.49 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60006c1e. Event ids that are associated: us60006c1e.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 95 km WSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1867° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km WSW 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 2019-11-08 18:50:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-07 19:33:10 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 284 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 3.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us60006c1e Id of event.
Event Code 60006c1e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006c1e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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