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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on July 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.3315S, 169.277WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 232 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (144 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:39:16 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.277 East, latitude 54.3315 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 28/07/17 / 2017-07-28 02:39:16 / July 28, 2017 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a21g. Unique identifier: us2000a21g.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 232 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.277° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 232km ESE of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-28 02:39:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-28 03:01:29 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 3.59 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 3.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us2000a21g Id of event.
Event Code 2000a21g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a21g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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