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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.8596S, 164.5172WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 133 km ESE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (83 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: us7000mcdg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mcdg. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:37:21 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 10:37:21 / April 16, 2024 @ 10:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 164.5172 East, latitude 55.8596 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 133 km ESE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.5172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.8596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133 km ESE 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 2024-04-16 10:37:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-15 13:19:18 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 385 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 148 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000mcdg Id of event.
Event Code 7000mcdg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mcdg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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