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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 22 km NW of Kultuk, Russia

Posted by admin on September 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8548S, 103.4493WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kultuk in Russia on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/09/20 / 2020-09-21 18:04:57 / September 21, 2020 @ 6:04 pm. 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: us6000bzek. Id of event: us6000bzek. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:04:57 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 103.4493 East, latitude 51.8548 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rechka-Vydrino, Usol’ye-Sibirskoye, Vydreno. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Irkutsk (c. 586 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Angarsk (c. 243 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Usol’ye-Sibirskoye (c. 85 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Shelekhov (c. 47 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Slyudyanka (c. 18 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Baykal’sk (c. 15 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Meget (c. 8 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kyren (c. 5 300 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 22 km NW of Kultuk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 103.4493° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8548° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km NW of Kultuk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-21 18:04:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-21 18:27:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.682 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 466 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 0.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us6000bzek Id of event.
Event Code 6000bzek An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bzek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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