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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on January 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.4599S, 155.2156WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 150 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (93 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.68 km (46 miles). Exact location, longitude 155.2156° East, latitude 49.4599° North, depth = 74.68 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:23:40 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 20:23:40 / January 7, 2016 @ 8:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004c7b. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004c7b.

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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 150 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.2156° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.4599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150km 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 2016-01-07 20:23:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 20:38:48 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 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 416 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 3.971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us10004c7b Id of event.
Event Code 10004c7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004c7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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