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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on November 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 48.296S, 154.2641WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 297 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (185 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.56 km (26 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.2641 East, latitude 48.296 North, depth = 41.56 km. Event id: us10003yr1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yr1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:49:15 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 16:49:15 / November 16, 2015 @ 4:49 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 297 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.2641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 297km SSW 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 2015-11-16 16:49:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-16 17:16:17 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 3.66 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 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, 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 5.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003yr1 Id of event.
Event Code 10003yr1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yr1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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