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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 46.2103S, 150.9531WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 262 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia (163 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.71 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a2r4. Id of event: us2000a2r4. The temblor was reported at 07:00:49 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 21:00:49 / July 30, 2017 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 150.9531° East, latitude 46.2103° North, depth = 86.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 262 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.9531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.2103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 262km ENE of 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 2017-07-30 21:00:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-30 21:19:58 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 3.93 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 7.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us2000a2r4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a2r4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a2r4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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