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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Aktash in Russia


Earthquake location 50.5696S, 87.3768WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Aktash in Russia on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:08:05 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 04:08:05 / September 13, 2019 @ 4:08 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70005fqk. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005fqk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 87.3768 East, latitude 50.5696 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Onguday (c. 5 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Onguday (min 5000 pop).

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. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 39 km NW of Aktash, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 87.3768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NW of Aktash, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-13 04:08:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-13 04:28:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 3.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us70005fqk Id of event.
Event Code 70005fqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005fqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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