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


Earthquake location 53.1401S, 159.8768WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russia on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 03:02:26 / 3:02 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003y2f. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003y2f. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/19 / 2019-06-03 15:02:26 / June 3, 2019 @ 3:02 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 159.8768 East, latitude 53.1401 North, depth = 57.1 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.1 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-five 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: 82 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km E 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 2019-06-03 15:02:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-11 13:57:10 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 0.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us70003y2f Id of event.
Event Code 70003y2f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003y2f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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