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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 44.8759S, 147.5038WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 km SW of Kuril’sk, Russia (30 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 128.64 km (80 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:10:46 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 06:10:46 / July 17, 2020 @ 6:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.5038 East, latitude 44.8759 North, depth = 128.64 km. Id of earthquake: us7000aq5u. Event ids that are associated: us7000aq5u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km SW of Kuril’sk, Russia. This data 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 147.5038° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.8759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km SW 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 2020-07-17 06:10:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 06:27:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000aq5u Id of event.
Event Code 7000aq5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aq5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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