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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 45.4289S, 151.3362WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 271 km E of Kuril’sk, Russia (168 miles) on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jh67. Id of event: us2000jh67. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 151.3362 East, latitude 45.4289 North, depth = 23.64 km. The temblor was reported at 20:02:53 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.64 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/02/19 / 2019-02-13 10:02:53 / February 13, 2019 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 271 km E of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.3362° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.4289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 271km E 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 2019-02-13 10:02:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 10:27:46 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 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 6.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jh67 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jh67 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jh67, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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