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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Ola in Russia


Earthquake location 57.972S, 152.9999WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 205 km SSE of Ola, Russia (127 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 21:07:40 / September 1, 2017 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.48 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:07:40 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 152.9999 East, latitude 57.972 North, depth = 11.48 km. Id of earthquake: us2000adzc. Event ids that are associated: us2000adzc.

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 one 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 205 km SSE of Ola, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.9999° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.972° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 205km SSE of Ola, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-01 21:07:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 21:26:12 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 1.983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us2000adzc Id of event.
Event Code 2000adzc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000adzc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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