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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 160 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 46.1899S, 149.428WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 160 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia (99 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 00:12:19 / November 23, 2019 @ 12:12 am. The temblor was reported at 10:12:19 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006c0e. Event ids that are associated: us70006c0e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.35 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.428 East, latitude 46.1899 North, depth = 38.35 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 160 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 149.428° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.1899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km NE 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 2019-11-23 00:12:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 00:40:13 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 416 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 4.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 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 us70006c0e Id of event.
Event Code 70006c0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006c0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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