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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 53.316S, 159.4633WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 159.4633 East, latitude 53.316 North, depth = 75.53 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75.53 km (47 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:20:46 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/10/18 / 2018-10-13 10:20:46 / October 13, 2018 @ 10:20 am. Event id: us1000hdwy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hdwy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4633° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km ENE 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 2018-10-13 10:20:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-08 13:57:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 246 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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us1000hdwy Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdwy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdwy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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