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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 53.7294S, 160.3463WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 136 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (85 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.59 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 01/12/24 / 2024-12-01 22:59:03 / December 1, 2024 @ 10:59 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:59:03 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.3463 East, latitude 53.7294 North, depth = 84.59 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nvc5. Id of event: us7000nvc5.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 136 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3463° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7294° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136 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 2024-12-01 22:59:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-01 23:27:56 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 326 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us7000nvc5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvc5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvc5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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