Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia. Exact location, longitude 161.6813° East, latitude 55.6829° North, depth = 79.45 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:26:07 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/20 / 2020-11-09 20:26:07 / November 9, 2020 @ 8:26 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.45 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000ce9w. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ce9w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi. Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 78 km SW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	161.6813° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.6829° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78 km SW 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	2020-11-09 20:26:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-13 18:33:28	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	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	3.201	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us7000ce9w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ce9w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ce9w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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