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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 53.0911S, 159.8394WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Exact location, longitude 159.8394° East, latitude 53.0911° North, depth = 62.675 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000p6ib. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p6ib. The temblor was reported at 10:24:03 / 10:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/24 / 2024-11-20 10:24:03 / November 20, 2024 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 62.675 km (39 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (49 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 81 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8394° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.675 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 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 2024-11-20 10:24:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-20 11:01:23 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 259 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us6000p6ib Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6ib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6ib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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