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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Shebunino in Russia

Posted by admin on April 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.1977S, 142.1588WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Shebunino in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/17 / 2017-04-23 06:37:08 / April 23, 2017 @ 6:37 am. The temblor was reported at 16:37:08 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 142.1588° East, 46.1977° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008jyr. Id of event: us10008jyr.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (c. 176 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Wakkanai (c. 41 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Korsakov (c. 35 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kholmsk (c. 32 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Makubetsu (c. 25 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Nevel’sk (c. 17 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aniva (c. 8 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makubetsu, Wakkanai, Kholmsk (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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.

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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. 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: 34 km SE of Shebunino, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.1588° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.1977° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SE of Shebunino, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-23 06:37:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-23 07:00:58 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 2 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 400 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 0.867 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us10008jyr Id of event.
Event Code 10008jyr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008jyr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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