Mag. 4.5 earthquake - Milkovsky District, 90 km north of Yelizovo, Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020 2:46 am (GMT +12) -

Mag. 4.5 earthquake - Milkovsky District, 90 km north of Yelizovo, Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020 2:46 am (GMT +12)

Light magnitude 4.5 earthquake at 163 km depth

30 Nov 15:28 UTC: First to report: EMSC after 42 minutes.
30 Nov 15:31: Epicenter location corrected by 3.4 km (2.1 mi) towards NW.
30 Nov 15:51: Hypocenter depth recalculated from 163.0 to 161.0 km (from 101 to 100 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 3.4 km (2.1 mi) towards SSE.
30 Nov 16:06: Hypocenter depth recalculated from 161.0 to 163.0 km (from 100 to 101 mi). Epicenter location corrected by 2.6 km (1.6 mi) towards E.
Date & time: 30 Nov 2020 14:46:23 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020 2:46 am (GMT +12)
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 163.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 54°N / 158.46°E (Milkovsky District, Kamchatka, Russia)
Nearest volcano: Zavaritsky (14 km / 9 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
78 km (49 mi) S of Mil’kovo (pop: 8,250) --> See nearby quakes!
90 km (56 mi) N of Yelizovo (pop: 40,700) --> See nearby quakes!
107 km (67 mi) N of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (pop: 187,300) --> See nearby quakes!
119 km (74 mi) N of Vilyuchinsk (Yelizovsky District) (pop: 25,200) --> See nearby quakes!
215 km (134 mi) S of Esso (pop: 1,970) --> See nearby quakes!
245 km (152 mi) SSW of Kozyrëvsk (pop: 1,240) --> See nearby quakes!
299 km (186 mi) SSW of Klyuchi (Ust-Kamchatsky District) (pop: 10,000) --> See nearby quakes!
356 km (221 mi) SW of Ust’-Kamchatsk Staryy (Ust-Kamchatsky District) (pop: 4,940) --> See nearby quakes!
418 km (260 mi) S of Tigil' (pop: 1,990) --> See nearby quakes!
6680 km (4151 mi) NE of Moscow (pop: 10,381,200) --> See nearby quakes!
Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Overcast Clouds -11.2°C (12 F), humidity: 92%, wind: 1 m/s (2 kts) from NW
Primary data source: EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
Estimated released energy: 3.5 x 1011 joules (98.6 megawatt hours, equivalent to 84.8 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 4.5163 kmKAMCHATKA PENINSULA, RUSSIAEMSC
M 4.5167 km81 Km S of Mil’kovo, RussiaUSGS

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