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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 54.521S, 161.6135WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 197 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (122 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 59.13 km (37 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 07:04:52 / May 1, 2020 @ 7:04 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.6135 East, latitude 54.521 North, depth = 59.13 km. Unique identifier: us7000983z. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000983z. The temblor was detected at 19:04:52 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 197 km SSW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.6135° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197km 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 2020-05-01 07:04:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-01 07:24:24 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 432 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 2.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000983z Id of event.
Event Code 7000983z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000983z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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