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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Esso in Russia


Earthquake location 55.6709S, 159.1921WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 42 km SE of Esso, Russia (26 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 273.29 km (170 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/10/15 / 2015-10-16 06:38:25 / October 16, 2015 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 273.29 km, 159.1921° East, 55.6709° North. Unique identifier: us10003p25. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003p25. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:38:25 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 42 km SE of Esso, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.1921° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.6709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 273.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SE of Esso, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-16 06:38:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 06:58:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 449 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 2.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us10003p25 Id of event.
Event Code 10003p25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003p25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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