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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 50 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia


Earthquake location 56.1709S, 163.2856WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 50 km E of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (31 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/19 / 2019-07-03 08:57:57 / July 3, 2019 @ 8:57 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000495h. Id of event: us7000495h. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:57:57 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 163.2856° East, latitude 56.1709° North, depth = 48.56 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.56 km (30 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km E 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 163.2856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2019-07-03 08:57:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 06:57:03 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 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 4.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us7000495h Id of event.
Event Code 7000495h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000495h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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