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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 54.8747S, 161.5092WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 162 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (101 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 55.17 km (34 miles). Event id: us60007crw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007crw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 11:04:12 / January 22, 2020 @ 11:04 am. Exact location, longitude 161.5092° East, latitude 54.8747° North, depth = 55.17 km. The temblor was reported at 23:04:12 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 162 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.5092° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km SSW 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 2020-01-22 11:04:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-22 11:20:35 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 482 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 2.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007crw Id of event.
Event Code 60007crw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007crw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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