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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 95 km E of Esso, Russia


Earthquake location 55.9015S, 160.2227WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Esso in Russia on Thursday. 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: us70008fzz. Id of event: us70008fzz. The temblor was reported at 07:56:07 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 19:56:07 / March 25, 2020 @ 7:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.2227 East, latitude 55.9015 North, depth = 182.07 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 182.07 km (113 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Klyuchi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Klyuchi (c. 10 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 95 km E of Esso, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.2227° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.9015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 182.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km E of Esso, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-25 19:56:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 20:10:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 3.026 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us70008fzz Id of event.
Event Code 70008fzz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008fzz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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