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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Severnaya Zemlya

Posted by admin on February 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 85.3247S, 92.1222WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, North of Severnaya Zemlya (0 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:03:05 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/18 / 2018-02-16 10:03:05 / February 16, 2018 @ 10:03 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 92.1222 East, latitude 85.3247 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000d34y. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d34y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 92.1222° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 85.3247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place North of Severnaya Zemlya Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-16 10:03:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-16 10:25:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 400 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 14.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000d34y Id of event.
Event Code 2000d34y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d34y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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