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Major earthquake 7.4 mag, 82 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia

Posted by admin on December 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.106S, 164.7089WA major earthquake with magnitude 7.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 82 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (51 miles). The 7.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:01:54 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.59 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 164.7089 East, latitude 55.106 North, depth = 9.59 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikol’skoye in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000ivfw. Event ids that are associated: pt18354000, at00pk1on9, us2000ivfw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 17:01:54 / December 20, 2018 @ 5:01 pm.

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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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: 82 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.7089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km W of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 17:01:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 17:24:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 6.04 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 842 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 4.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us2000ivfw Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivfw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18354000,at00pk1on9,us2000ivfw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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