6.8 Mwp - KURIL ISLANDS

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 6.8 Mwp
Date-Time
  • 16 Nov 2012 18:12:37 UTC
  • 17 Nov 2012 05:12:37 near epicenter
  • 16 Nov 2012 10:12:37 standard time in your timezone
Location 49.291N 155.445E
Depth 4 km
Distances
  • 162 km (101 miles) SSW (198 degrees) of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia
  • 471 km (292 miles) SSW (210 degrees) of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
  • 1980 km (1230 miles) NE (35 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 15.1 km; Vertical 6.7 km
Parameters Nph = 334; Dmin = 454.0 km; Rmss = 0.92 seconds; Gp = 38°
M-type = Mwp; Version = 7
Event ID us c000dtr7

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