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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.2S, 156.28WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 164 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (102 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 23:21:50 / October 10, 2018 @ 11:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hcxa. Id of event: us1000hcxa. Exact location of event, longitude 156.28 East, latitude 49.2 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:21:50 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 164 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.28° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 164km S of Severo-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 2018-10-10 23:21:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 02:59:11 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 3.2 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 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 465 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 4.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us1000hcxa Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcxa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcxa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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