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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.2351S, 156.0864WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 160 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (99 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 156.0864 East, latitude 49.2351 North, depth = 34.61 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.61 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008j9d. Id of event: us10008j9d. Global time and date of event 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 15:20:43 / April 20, 2017 @ 3:20 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:20:43 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 160 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.0864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-20 15:20:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 15:37:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 400 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 4.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us10008j9d Id of event.
Event Code 10008j9d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008j9d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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