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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Nikol’skoye in Russia


Earthquake location 55.2253S, 164.5815WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 89 km W of Nikol’skoye, Russia (55 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 164.5815 East, latitude 55.2253 North, depth = 37.63 km. 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 09:31:01 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.63 km (23 miles). Unique identifier: us10007c5y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007c5y. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/16 / 2016-11-24 22:31:01 / November 24, 2016 @ 10:31 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km W of Nikol’skoye, 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 164.5815° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.2253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km W 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 2016-11-24 22:31:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-24 22:49:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.68 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 4.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10007c5y Id of event.
Event Code 10007c5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007c5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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