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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 39 km ENE of Shikotan, Russia


Earthquake location 43.8686S, 147.2079WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Shikotan in Russia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006c7b. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006c7b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 12:58:05 / November 23, 2019 @ 12:58 pm. Exact location, longitude 147.2079° East, latitude 43.8686° North, depth = 6.31 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.31 km (4 miles). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:58:05 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km ENE of Shikotan, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.2079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.8686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km ENE of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-23 12:58:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 13:24:25 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 5.2 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 500 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 3.339 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 105 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 us70006c7b Id of event.
Event Code 70006c7b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006c7b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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