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Strong earthquake: M6.4 quake has struck near Sovetskaya Gavan’ in Russia


Earthquake location 48.2582S, 140.8105WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Sovetskaya Gavan’ in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/11/20 / 2020-11-30 22:54:34 / November 30, 2020 @ 10:54 pm. Exact location of event, depth 586.95 km, 140.8105° East, 48.2582° North. Id of earthquake: us7000clbu. Event ids that are associated: us7000clbu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 586.95 km (365 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:54:34 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Uglegorsk, Vanino, Zavety Il’icha (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Sovetskaya Gavan’ (c. 29 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Vanino (c. 18 600 pop), 130 km (81 miles) from Uglegorsk (c. 12 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Zavety Il’icha (c. 9 100 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 88 km SSE of Sovetskaya Gavan’, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.8105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.2582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 586.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km SSE of Sovetskaya Gavan’, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-30 22:54:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-30 23:15:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 630 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 1.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us7000clbu Id of event.
Event Code 7000clbu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000clbu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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