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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 102 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

Posted by admin on February 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0918S, 159.0305WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 159.0305° East, latitude 52.0918° North, depth = 55.83 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mks. Id of event: us20008mks. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:21:22 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/17 / 2017-02-27 01:21:22 / February 27, 2017 @ 1:21 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.83 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 102 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.0305° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0918° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-27 01:21:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-27 01:52:34 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 385 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 0.961 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us20008mks Id of event.
Event Code 20008mks An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008mks, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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