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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Tilichiki in Russia


Earthquake location 60.9385S, 165.6721WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 57 km NNW of Tilichiki, Russia (35 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.78 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 165.6721 East, latitude 60.9385 North, depth = 17.78 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:18:43 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/03/16 / 2016-03-08 18:18:43 / March 8, 2016 @ 6:18 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004w2p. Id of event: us10004w2p.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km NNW of Tilichiki, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 165.6721° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.9385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km NNW of Tilichiki, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-08 18:18:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-08 18:38:46 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 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 7.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us10004w2p Id of event.
Event Code 10004w2p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w2p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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