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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.2107S, 158.8914WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 158.8914 East, latitude 52.2107 North, depth = 99.97 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c5mu. Unique identifier: us6000c5mu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 99.97 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:04:31 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/10/20 / 2020-10-05 09:04:31 / October 5, 2020 @ 9:04 am.

Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.8914° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-05 09:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-05 10:07:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 0.827 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us6000c5mu Id of event.
Event Code 6000c5mu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c5mu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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