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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 53.7924S, 160.4246WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 144 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (89 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:36:36 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 160.4246° East, latitude 53.7924° North, depth = 81.77 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/17 / 2017-12-22 15:36:36 / December 22, 2017 @ 3:36 pm. Unique identifier: us1000bv1d. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bv1d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 81.77 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 144 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.4246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km NE 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 2017-12-22 15:36:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-22 15:55:52 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 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 1.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us1000bv1d Id of event.
Event Code 1000bv1d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bv1d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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