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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Paratunka in Russia


Earthquake location 52.4448S, 157.7855WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Paratunka in Russia on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dzc. Id of event: us10007dzc. The temblor was reported at 17:16:27 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 157.7855 East, latitude 52.4448 North, depth = 118.83 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 118.83 km (74 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/16 / 2016-12-01 05:16:27 / December 1, 2016 @ 5:16 am.

The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk.

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 seven 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km SSW of Paratunka, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.7855° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4448° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SSW of Paratunka, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-01 05:16:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-01 05:34:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 0.666 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10007dzc Id of event.
Event Code 10007dzc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dzc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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