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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 116 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 52.694S, 160.2407WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 116 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (72 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 38.052 km (24 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/24 / 2024-08-19 07:24:15 / August 19, 2024 @ 7:24 am. The temblor was detected at 07:24:15 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000n7vx. Event ids that are associated: us7000n7vx. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.2407 East, latitude 52.694 North, depth = 38.052 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 116 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.2407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.052 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-19 07:24:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-19 07:55:19 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 340 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 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000n7vx Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7vx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7vx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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