Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Yelizovo in Russia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia on Saturday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:00:54 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.2732 East, latitude 53.5272 North, depth = 169.109 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 169.109 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000n7jv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n7jv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 02:00:54 / August 17, 2024 @ 2:00 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo. Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km N of Yelizovo, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	158.2732° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.5272° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	169.109 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km N of Yelizovo, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-17 02:00:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-17 02:20:52	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	416	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	114	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.553	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000n7jv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n7jv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n7jv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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