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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 53.1928S, 159.4657WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. Global time and date of event 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 15:40:32 / November 8, 2024 @ 3:40 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nqm2. Event ids that are associated: us7000nqm2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 75.156 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:40:32 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.4657 East, latitude 53.1928 North, depth = 75.156 km.

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 57 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.156 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km ENE 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 2024-11-08 15:40:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-08 17:22:00 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 298 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us7000nqm2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqm2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqm2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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