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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia

Posted by admin on December 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.8481S, 160.4345WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 148 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia (92 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 22/12/17 / 2017-12-22 22:28:25 / December 22, 2017 @ 10:28 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bv74. Unique identifier: us1000bv74. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.43 km (40 miles). Exact location, longitude 160.4345° East, latitude 53.8481° North, depth = 64.43 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:28:25 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 148 km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.4345° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.8481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km 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 22:28:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-22 23:07:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 370 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 1.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000bv74 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bv74 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bv74, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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