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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 12 km WSW of Kumukh, Russia

Posted by admin on May 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.1441S, 46.9653WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kumukh in Russia on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 08:53:37 / May 3, 2017 @ 8:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:53:37 / 11:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10008nrz. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008nrz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 46.9653 East, latitude 42.1441 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Makhachkala (c. 498 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Kaspiysk (c. 81 800 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Sheki (c. 63 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Buynaksk (c. 62 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Izberbash (c. 42 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Dagestanskiye Ogni (c. 27 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Zaqatala (c. 18 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sheki, Dylym, Gurjaani (min 5000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 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: 12 km WSW of Kumukh, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.9653° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.1441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW of Kumukh, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-03 08:53:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-03 09:14:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 2.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us10008nrz Id of event.
Event Code 10008nrz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008nrz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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