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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.1265S, 156.302WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (107 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: us1000hcxg. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hcxg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 156.302° East, latitude 49.1265° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 23:19:42 / October 10, 2018 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:19:42 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 173 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.302° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km S of Severo-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 2018-10-10 23:19:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-25 02:19:55 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 4.173 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 195 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 us1000hcxg Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcxg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcxg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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