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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 54.4357S, 161.6495WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 206 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (128 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 67.06 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 05:56:06 / August 14, 2016 @ 5:56 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.6495 East, latitude 54.4357 North, depth = 67.06 km. Event id: us10006dqc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006dqc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:56:06 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 206 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.6495° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 206km 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 2016-08-14 05:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 07:10:15 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 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 2.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10006dqc Id of event.
Event Code 10006dqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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