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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 54.1475S, 169.4079WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 249 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia (155 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.4079 East, latitude 54.1475 North, depth = 14.47 km. The temblor was detected at 05:23:11 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us200061ue. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200061ue. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/06/16 / 2016-06-03 18:23:11 / June 3, 2016 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.47 km (9 miles).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. 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: 249 km ESE of Nikol’skoye, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.4079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 249km ESE of Nikol'skoye, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-03 18:23:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-03 18:42:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 3.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us200061ue Id of event.
Event Code 200061ue An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061ue, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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