Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 127 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 127 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia (79 miles) on Friday. Event id: us2000iym6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iym6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:03:33 / 11:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/18 / 2018-12-28 13:03:33 / December 28, 2018 @ 1:03 pm. Exact location, longitude 148.5833° East, latitude 44.1998° North, depth = 49.35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 49.35 km (31 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 127 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	148.5833° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.1998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	127km SSE of 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	2018-12-28 13:03:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-28 13:23:18	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	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	4.311	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	us2000iym6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iym6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iym6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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