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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.778S, 162.1574WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (33 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:37:40 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006qa0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006qa0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 21:37:40 / December 23, 2019 @ 9:37 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 162.1574 East, latitude 55.778 North, depth = 15.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.55 km (10 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.1574° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSW 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 2019-12-23 21:37:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 22:59:43 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 340 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 3.438 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 128 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 us70006qa0 Id of event.
Event Code 70006qa0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006qa0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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