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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on December 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.8211S, 164.7978WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 86 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (53 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 03:24:17 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivzb. Id of event: us2000ivzb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 16:24:17 / December 21, 2018 @ 4:24 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. Exact location, longitude 164.7978° East, latitude 54.8211° North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.7978° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km WSW 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 2018-12-21 16:24:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-21 16:40:47 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 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 449 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 4.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us2000ivzb Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivzb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivzb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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