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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.9702S, 160.3687WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 117 kilometers (73 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/24 / 2024-08-30 04:24:23 / August 30, 2024 @ 4:24 am. Event id: us6000nnlx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nnlx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.858 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, depth 27.858 km, 160.3687° East, 52.9702° North. The temblor was reported at 04:24:23 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Event epicenter was 115 km (72 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 117 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3687° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.858 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117 km E 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 2024-08-30 04:24:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-30 04:46:29 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 554 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 113 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us6000nnlx Id of event.
Event Code 6000nnlx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nnlx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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