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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 52.7383S, 159.2796WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008n6j. Unique identifier: us10008n6j. Exact location, longitude 159.2796° East, latitude 52.7383° North, depth = 56.89 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/17 / 2017-04-22 07:32:09 / April 22, 2017 @ 7:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:32:09 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.89 km (35 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 54 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.2796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.7383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-22 07:32:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-10 07:07:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 0.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us10008n6j Id of event.
Event Code 10008n6j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008n6j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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