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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.7196S, 155.8816WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 108 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (67 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003j2t. Id of event: us70003j2t. The temblor was detected at 07:37:13 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/19 / 2019-05-09 21:37:13 / May 9, 2019 @ 9:37 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 155.8816 East, latitude 49.7196 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 108 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.8816° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.7196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km S of Severo-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 2019-05-09 21:37:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-09 22:06:05 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 3.531 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 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 3.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us70003j2t Id of event.
Event Code 70003j2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003j2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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