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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 50.4274S, 142.258WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy in Russia on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 11:15:14 / August 14, 2016 @ 11:15 am. The temblor was detected at 21:15:14 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006dr1. Unique identifier: us10006dr1. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 142.258° East, 50.4274° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Smirnykh, Tymovskoye, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy (c. 12 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Tymovskoye (c. 8 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Smirnykh (c. 7 100 pop).

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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 52 km S of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.258° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.4274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km S of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-14 11:15:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 11:36:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.91 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 536 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 3.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10006dr1 Id of event.
Event Code 10006dr1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006dr1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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