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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kuril Islands


Earthquake location 47.4528S, 152.8695WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes Kuril Islands (0 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 07/12/17 / 2017-12-07 23:16:34 / December 7, 2017 @ 11:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.27 km (13 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:16:34 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c1wd. Id of event: us2000c1wd. Exact location, longitude 152.8695° East, latitude 47.4528° North, depth = 21.27 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: Kuril Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.8695° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.4528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kuril Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-07 23:16:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-07 23:54:10 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 6.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000c1wd Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1wd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c1wd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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