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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.4702S, 160.8905WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 166 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (103 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 160.8905° East, 52.4702° North, depth 33.207 km. Id of earthquake: us7000ndbm. Event ids that are associated: us7000ndbm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 23:12:05 / August 20, 2024 @ 11:12 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:12:05 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 33.207 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. 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: 166 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.8905° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.207 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166 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 2024-08-20 23:12:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-13 21:06:30 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 271 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.47 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us7000ndbm Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndbm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndbm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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