Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kuril Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000hul5. Event ids that are associated: us1000hul5. Global time and date of event 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 20:16:02 / November 20, 2018 @ 8:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:16:02 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 148.0421° East, latitude 44.4504° North, depth = 94.06 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 94.06 km (58 miles).

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 two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	148.0421° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.4504° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	94.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kuril Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-20 20:16:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-20 20:30:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	3.927	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us1000hul5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hul5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hul5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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