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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 54.8651S, 163.2465WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 159 km SSE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (99 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/19 / 2019-02-21 16:07:10 / February 21, 2019 @ 4:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:07:10 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.7 km (9 miles). Id of earthquake: ak0192e9jl7w. Event ids that are associated: ak0192e9jl7w. Exact location, longitude 163.2465° East, latitude 54.8651° North, depth = 14.7 km.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 159 km SSE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.2465° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159km SSE 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 2019-02-21 16:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-21 16:17:24 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 automatic 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 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ak0192e9jl7w Id of event.
Event Code 0192e9jl7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192e9jl7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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