Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 453 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 02:16 (GMT)
This quake was likely an aftershock of the 6.6 quake North Pacific Ocean, 1 km southeast of Ostrov Dym Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, 10 October 2018 23:16 GMT, which had occurred 3 hours earlier.
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Moderate magnitude 5.5 earthquake at 10 km depth
11 Oct 02:27 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 11 minutes.
Oct 11 02:30: Magnitude recalculated from 5.0 to 5.5.
Oct 11 02:30: Magnitude recalculated from 5.0 to 5.5.
Magnitude: 5.5
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 49.28°N / 156.18°E
(North Pacific Ocean, Russia)Nearest volcano: Nemo Peak (104 km / 65 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
155 km (96 mi) S of Severo-Kuril'sk (pop: 2,420) --> See nearby quakes!
435 km (270 mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk (Yelizovsky District) (pop: 25,200) --> See nearby quakes!
453 km (281 mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (pop: 187,300) --> See nearby quakes!
461 km (286 mi) SSW of Yelizovo (pop: 40,700) --> See nearby quakes!
7029 km (4368 mi) NE of Moscow (pop: 10,381,200) --> See nearby quakes!
105 km (65 mi) E of Onekotan Island --> See nearby quakes!
181 km (113 mi) SSE of Alaid Island --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 1.1 x 1013 joules (3.12 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 2682 tons of TNT or 0.2 atomic bombs!) More info
Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies
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| Magnitude | Depth | Location | Source |
| M 5.5 | 10 km | Kuril Islands | GFZ |
| M 5.1 | 45 km | KURIL ISLANDS | EMSC |
| M 5.2 | 53 km | Kuril Islands | GeoAu |
| M 5.1 | 49 km | - 148km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia | USGS |
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Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 453 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 02:16 (GMT)Click here to search our database for earlier earthquakes in the same area since 1900!
