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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.3848S, 163.0711WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km SSE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (62 miles) on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 163.0711° East, latitude 55.3848° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/24 / 2024-10-12 03:58:24 / October 12, 2024 @ 3:58 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000np6q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000np6q. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:58:24 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 100 km SSE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 163.0711° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.3848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km SSE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-12 03:58:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 22:50:08 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 312 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us7000np6q Id of event.
Event Code 7000np6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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