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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Vostok in Russia


Earthquake location 47.7074S, 146.9522WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 197 km SW of Vostok, Russia (122 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 01:00:21 / July 23, 2016 @ 1:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 146.9522° East, 47.7074° North, depth 407.35 km. Id of earthquake: us20006h0d. Event ids that are associated: us20006h0d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 407.35 km (253 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:00:21 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 197 km SW of Vostok, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.9522° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.7074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 407.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197km SW of Vostok, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-23 01:00:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 01:23:06 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 0 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 500 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 2.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us20006h0d Id of event.
Event Code 20006h0d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006h0d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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