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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Okhotsk


Earthquake location 49.7241S, 147.7464WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Sea of Okhotsk (0 miles). Global time and date of event 20/01/21 / 2021-01-20 16:00:40 / January 20, 2021 @ 4:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 574.69 km (357 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000d1q5. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d1q5. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:00:40 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.7464 East, latitude 49.7241 North, depth = 574.69 km.

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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: Sea of Okhotsk.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.7464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.7241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 574.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Sea of Okhotsk Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-20 16:00:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-20 16:19:22 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 0 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 465 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 4.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us7000d1q5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d1q5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d1q5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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