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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Otrada in Russia


Earthquake location 44.5381S, 145.401WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Otrada in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:04:53 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhe5. Unique identifier: us1000hhe5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 03:04:53 / October 26, 2018 @ 3:04 am. Exact location of event, longitude 145.401 East, latitude 44.5381 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (66 miles) from Abashiri (c. 42 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abashiri, Shibetsu, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Did you feel the quake?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km NW of Otrada, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.401° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NW of Otrada, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-26 03:04:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 03:23:16 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 482 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 2.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us1000hhe5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhe5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhe5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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