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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 56.2962S, 164.318WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 114 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (71 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 164.318 East, latitude 56.2962 North, depth = 31.71 km. Unique identifier: us10008u9c. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008u9c. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.71 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:42:20 / 12:42 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 01:42:20 / May 23, 2017 @ 1:42 am.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 114 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.318° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.2962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km E 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 2017-05-23 01:42:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-19 00:56:52 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 259 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 4.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10008u9c Id of event.
Event Code 10008u9c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008u9c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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