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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 200 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia

Posted by admin on October 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 48.8783S, 156.2369WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 200 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (124 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.62 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/15 / 2015-10-14 05:43:08 / October 14, 2015 @ 5:43 am. Exact location of event, depth 12.62 km, 156.2369° East, 48.8783° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:43:08 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003nib. Id of event: us10003nib.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 200 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.2369° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.8783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 200km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-14 05:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-14 06:03:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.08 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10003nib Id of event.
Event Code 10003nib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003nib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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