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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Mil’kovo in Russia


Earthquake location 54.5922S, 160.5824WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 127 km E of Mil’kovo, Russia (79 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 73.159 km (45 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.5824 East, latitude 54.5922 North, depth = 73.159 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/24 / 2024-10-27 04:49:47 / October 27, 2024 @ 4:49 am. Event id: us7000nnff. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nnff. The temblor was detected at 04:49:47 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven 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. 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: 127 km E of Mil’kovo, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.5824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.159 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127 km E of Mil’kovo, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-27 04:49:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-27 05:07:31 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 432 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000nnff Id of event.
Event Code 7000nnff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nnff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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