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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on April 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.4281S, 148.7312WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia (69 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 11:41:26 / April 20, 2017 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.83 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008j80. Id of event: us10008j80. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:41:26 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 60.83 km, 148.7312° East, 44.4281° North.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 111 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.7312° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.4281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km SE of Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-20 11:41:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 12:01:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 3.66 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 465 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 4.419 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 116 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 us10008j80 Id of event.
Event Code 10008j80 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008j80, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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