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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 53.1188S, 159.4094WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The temblor was detected at 00:07:36 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nrge. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nrge. The epicenter was at a depth of 65.189 km (41 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/24 / 2024-11-13 00:07:36 / November 13, 2024 @ 12:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 159.4094 East, latitude 53.1188 North, depth = 65.189 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 52 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.189 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 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 2024-11-13 00:07:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-13 00:34:31 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000nrge Id of event.
Event Code 7000nrge An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nrge, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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