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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.0974S, 162.5988WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 126 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (78 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:02:42 / 8:02 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: 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 09:02:42 / December 23, 2018 @ 9:02 am. Id of earthquake: us2000iwlv. Event ids that are associated: us2000iwlv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.04 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 162.5988° East, 55.0974° North, depth 49.04 km.

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 nine, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 126 km S of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 162.5988° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km S 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 2018-12-23 09:02:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 09:22:09 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 298 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 3.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 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 us2000iwlv Id of event.
Event Code 2000iwlv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iwlv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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