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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Burtunay in Russia

Posted by admin on May 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.9398S, 46.4907WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Burtunay in Russia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 21:17:46 / May 13, 2016 @ 9:17 pm. Unique identifier: us10005hax. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005hax. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.09 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 46.4907° East, 42.9398° North, depth 68.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:17:46 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samashki, Kizlyar, Achkhoy-Martan. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Makhachkala (c. 498 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Groznyy (c. 226 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Khasavyurt (c. 126 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kaspiysk (c. 81 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Buynaksk (c. 62 700 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Kizlyar (c. 50 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Urus-Martan (c. 41 500 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km WSW of Burtunay, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.4907° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9398° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW of Burtunay, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-13 21:17:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 21:38:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 2.264 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10005hax Id of event.
Event Code 10005hax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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