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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.401S, 155.6979WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 145 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (90 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 155.6979 East, latitude 49.401 North, depth = 48.564 km. Event id: us7000nmlt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nmlt. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/24 / 2024-10-23 14:38:05 / October 23, 2024 @ 2:38 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:38:05 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 48.564 km (30 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 145 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.6979° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.401° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.564 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-23 14:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 14:57:46 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 591 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 203 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us7000nmlt Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmlt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmlt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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