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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen


Earthquake location 71.1009S, -7.6984WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Olonkinbyen in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10002mig. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002mig. 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: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 07:40:04 / June 30, 2015 @ 7:40 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:04 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -7.6984 West, latitude 71.1009 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Olonkinbyen (c. 0 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (c. 3 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Olonkinbyen (min 5000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km ENE of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -7.6984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 71.1009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ENE of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-30 07:40:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-30 07:59:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 385 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 4.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us10002mig Id of event.
Event Code 10002mig An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mig, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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