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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Shikotan in Russia


Earthquake location 43.7442S, 147.4283WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 km E of Shikotan, Russia (35 miles). Exact location, longitude 147.4283° East, latitude 43.7442° North, depth = 69.29 km. Unique identifier: us10005d6s. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005d6s. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.29 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 00:00:52 / May 3, 2016 @ 12:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:52 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel the quake?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km E of Shikotan, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.4283° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km E of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-03 00:00:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-03 00:19:54 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 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 3.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us10005d6s Id of event.
Event Code 10005d6s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005d6s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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