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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 20 km S of Klyuchi, Russia


Earthquake location 56.1386S, 160.8429WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Klyuchi in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/24 / 2024-05-12 11:02:26 / May 12, 2024 @ 11:02 am. Exact location, longitude 160.8429° East, latitude 56.1386° North, depth = 143.439 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 143.439 km (89 miles). Unique identifier: us6000my1u. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000my1u. The temblor was detected at 11:02:26 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (13 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km S of Klyuchi, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.8429° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1386° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.439 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km S of Klyuchi, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-12 11:02:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 12:11:49 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 354 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us6000my1u Id of event.
Event Code 6000my1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000my1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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