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Mega undersea earthquake unleashes tremors across Russia including Moscow 10,000km away
By The Siberian Times reporter
24 May 2013
The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning.
The warning, for Sakhalin Island, was soon withdrawn and there were no reports of casualties or damage despite the immense power of the earthquake.
'The whole plate - on which the continent stands - shook,' said Anatoly Tsygankov, of the Rosgidromet environmental monitoring service.
'And this movement of the continental plate was felt all over Russia - not just in Moscow, we received calls from Nizhny Novgorod and other cities.'
In the capital of Kamchatka region, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, around 350 km away, the quake registered a magnitude of 5.
Across Siberia, there were tremors - with aftershocks of 2 on the Richter Scale recorded in Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry.
'In Moscow, the earthquake was felt on the top floors of high-rise buildings,' said a spokesman.
It is the first time since 1984 that the capital has suffered such aftershocks. In the east, the quake was felt in Japan. Across Russia, airports, railways, schools, kindergartens, hospitals and other key sites in the affected regions were being checked for damage.
More...
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/ot...-across-russia-including-moscow-10000km-away/
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2013-05-24 05:44:49 UTC
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Technical
Location and Magnitude contributed by: USGS, NEIC, Golden, Colorado (and predecessors)
Summary
Preferred Location Parameters
<TABLE class=tabular><THEAD><TR><TH>Parameter</TH><TH scope=col>Value</TH><TH scope=col>Uncertainty</TH></TR></THEAD><TBODY><TR><TH scope=row>Magnitude</TH><TD>8.3 Mww</TD><TD>Not Specified</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Location</TH><TD>54.874?N, 153.281?E</TD><TD>? 14.6 km</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Depth</TH><TD>608.9 km</TD><TD>? 9.4 km</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Number of Stations Used</TH><TD>166</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Number of Phases Used</TH><TD>167</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Minimum Distance</TH><TD>350.7 km (3.15?)</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Travel Time Residual</TH><TD>0.92 sec</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Azimuthal Gap</TH><TD>18?</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Review Status</TH><TD>REVIEWED</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Event ID</TH><TD>usb000h4jh</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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By The Siberian Times reporter
24 May 2013
The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning.
The warning, for Sakhalin Island, was soon withdrawn and there were no reports of casualties or damage despite the immense power of the earthquake.
'The whole plate - on which the continent stands - shook,' said Anatoly Tsygankov, of the Rosgidromet environmental monitoring service.
'And this movement of the continental plate was felt all over Russia - not just in Moscow, we received calls from Nizhny Novgorod and other cities.'
In the capital of Kamchatka region, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, around 350 km away, the quake registered a magnitude of 5.
Across Siberia, there were tremors - with aftershocks of 2 on the Richter Scale recorded in Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry.
'In Moscow, the earthquake was felt on the top floors of high-rise buildings,' said a spokesman.
It is the first time since 1984 that the capital has suffered such aftershocks. In the east, the quake was felt in Japan. Across Russia, airports, railways, schools, kindergartens, hospitals and other key sites in the affected regions were being checked for damage.
More...
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/ot...-across-russia-including-moscow-10000km-away/
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2013-05-24 05:44:49 UTC
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Technical
Location and Magnitude contributed by: USGS, NEIC, Golden, Colorado (and predecessors)
Summary
Preferred Location Parameters
<TABLE class=tabular><THEAD><TR><TH>Parameter</TH><TH scope=col>Value</TH><TH scope=col>Uncertainty</TH></TR></THEAD><TBODY><TR><TH scope=row>Magnitude</TH><TD>8.3 Mww</TD><TD>Not Specified</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Location</TH><TD>54.874?N, 153.281?E</TD><TD>? 14.6 km</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Depth</TH><TD>608.9 km</TD><TD>? 9.4 km</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Number of Stations Used</TH><TD>166</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Number of Phases Used</TH><TD>167</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Minimum Distance</TH><TD>350.7 km (3.15?)</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Travel Time Residual</TH><TD>0.92 sec</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Azimuthal Gap</TH><TD>18?</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Review Status</TH><TD>REVIEWED</TD></TR><TR><TH scope=row>Event ID</TH><TD>usb000h4jh</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4jh#technical
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