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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.5669S, 161.0697WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 114 kilometers (71 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 03:23:42 / March 26, 2019 @ 3:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.23 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:23:42 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 161.0697° East, latitude 55.5669° North, depth = 139.23 km. Id of earthquake: us1000jllt. Event ids that are associated: us1000jllt.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 114 km SW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0697° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.5669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km SW 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 2019-03-26 03:23:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-26 04:08:55 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 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 2.916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us1000jllt Id of event.
Event Code 1000jllt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jllt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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