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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.7278S, 162.2259WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, 162.2259° East, 55.7278° North, depth 20.98 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 16:19:08 / December 23, 2019 @ 4:19 pm. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:19:08 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.98 km (13 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006q6f. Unique identifier: us70006q6f.

Event epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klyuchi.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.2259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.7278° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 16:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 16:38:10 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 449 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 3.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70006q6f Id of event.
Event Code 70006q6f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006q6f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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