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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy in Russia


Earthquake location 55.4764S, 164.6101WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 157 km ESE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia (98 miles) on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pvm4, ak0252mj9f2p. Unique identifier: us6000pvm4. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/25 / 2025-02-26 16:15:30 / February 26, 2025 @ 4:15 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 164.6101 East, latitude 55.4764 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:30 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 157 km ESE of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.6101° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.4764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157 km ESE 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 2025-02-26 16:15:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-26 16:32:04 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 1.881 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 518 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 125 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pvm4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pvm4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pvm4,ak0252mj9f2p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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