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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 177 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 44.2039S, 149.5945WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 177 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia (110 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/18 / 2018-08-26 05:57:11 / August 26, 2018 @ 5:57 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ghh1. Unique identifier: us1000ghh1. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:57:11 / 3:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 149.5945 East, latitude 44.2039 North, depth = 7.87 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.87 km (5 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 177 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.5945° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 177km SE of Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-26 05:57:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-26 06:15:40 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 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 5.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us1000ghh1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ghh1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ghh1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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