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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 201 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia


Earthquake location 54.5297S, 161.3895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 201 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (125 miles). Event id: us60009cgn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009cgn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:20:33 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 161.3895° East, 54.5297° North, depth 62.5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.5 km (39 miles). Global time and date of event 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 23:20:33 / April 25, 2020 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 201 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3895° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5297° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201km 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 2020-04-25 23:20:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 23:36:56 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 259 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 2.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us60009cgn Id of event.
Event Code 60009cgn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009cgn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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