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

Posted by admin on July 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.1144S, 161.0671WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116.04 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 161.0671 East, latitude 56.1144 North, depth = 116.04 km. Event id: us20006gp8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gp8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 12:38:38 / July 17, 2016 @ 12:38 pm. The temblor was detected at 00:38:38 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km W of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km W 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 2016-07-17 12:38:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 12:52:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 3.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20006gp8 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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