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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8221S, 160.7711WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 146 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (91 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:57:54 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.7711 East, latitude 52.8221 North, depth = 30.386 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.386 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/08/24 / 2024-08-23 23:57:54 / August 23, 2024 @ 11:57 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000n947. Event ids that are associated: us7000n947.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 146 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7711° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.386 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 146 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 2024-08-23 23:57:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-24 00:14:58 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us7000n947 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n947 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n947, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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