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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 44.6106S, 148.9723WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 110 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.15 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.9723 East, latitude 44.6106 North, depth = 55.15 km. Global time and date of event 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 14:14:02 / July 10, 2019 @ 2:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:14:02 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70004gtc. Event ids that are associated: us70004gtc.

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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km SE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.9723° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km SE 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 2019-07-10 14:14:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-11 06:13:32 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 385 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 4.6 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us70004gtc Id of event.
Event Code 70004gtc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004gtc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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