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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on December 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.2556S, 164.7407WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 79 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (49 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:05:09 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/16 / 2016-12-22 16:05:09 / December 22, 2016 @ 4:05 pm. Unique identifier: us10007m07. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007m07. Exact location, longitude 164.7407° East, latitude 55.2556° North, depth = 22.19 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.19 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.7407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.2556° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km W of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-22 16:05:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-22 16:25:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 4.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us10007m07 Id of event.
Event Code 10007m07 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007m07, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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