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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 56.3586S, 163.8162WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 84 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (52 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/19 / 2019-06-26 02:44:27 / June 26, 2019 @ 2:44 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 163.8162 East, latitude 56.3586 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000452c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000452c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:44:27 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 84 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.8162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.3586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km E 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 2019-06-26 02:44:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-26 03:15:51 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 326 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 4.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000452c Id of event.
Event Code 7000452c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000452c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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