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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 54 km SSE of Korsakov, Russia

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Korsakov in Russia on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us100098sf. Event ids that are associated: us100098sf. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 13:35:57 / July 11, 2017 @ 1:35 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 142.9446° East, 46.1565° North, depth 340.63 km. The temblor was detected at 23:35:57 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 340.63 km (212 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (c. 176 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Korsakov (c. 35 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Nevel’sk (c. 17 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Aniva (c. 8 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Gornozavodsk (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nevel’sk, Gornozavodsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km SSE of Korsakov, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	142.9446° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.1565° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	340.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km SSE of Korsakov, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-07-11 13:35:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-11 14:48:04	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		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	0.812	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us100098sf	Id of event.
Event Code	100098sf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100098sf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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