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Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Ozernovskiy in Russia


Earthquake location 52.8611S, 153.3787WA earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 262 km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia (163 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18286001, at00pgjb1a, us1000hbkz. Id of event: us1000hbkz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 470.06 km (292 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Ozernovskiy in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/10/18 / 2018-10-13 11:10:23 / October 13, 2018 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 153.3787° East, latitude 52.8611° North, depth = 470.06 km. The 6.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:10:23 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 262 km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.3787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 470.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 262km NW of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-13 11:10:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-13 11:31:00 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 3.04 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 1 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 691 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 ,pt,at,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 2.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hbkz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hbkz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18286001,at00pgjb1a,us1000hbkz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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