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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Nikol’skoye in Russia

Posted by admin on January 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.8999S, 164.7724WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia (52 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j1rt. Unique identifier: us2000j1rt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 17:09:04 / December 20, 2018 @ 5:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:09:04 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 164.7724 East, latitude 54.8999 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-nine, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 84 km WSW of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 164.7724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2018-12-20 17:09:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 01:13:02 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 4.11 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 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 536 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 4.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us2000j1rt Id of event.
Event Code 2000j1rt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j1rt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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