Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Kuril Islands

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 155.35 km (97 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.4223 East, latitude 48.5016 North, depth = 155.35 km. Id of earthquake: us20004vpy. Event ids that are associated: us20004vpy. The temblor was reported at 10:16:40 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 00:16:40 / January 30, 2016 @ 12:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: Kuril Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.4223° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.5016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	155.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kuril Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-30 00:16:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-30 00:32:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	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	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.349	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us20004vpy	Id of event.
Event Code	20004vpy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004vpy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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