Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 458 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 05:47 (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 7 hours earlier.
Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 458 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 05:47 (GMT)

Moderate magnitude 5.5 earthquake at 10 km depth

11 Oct 05:58 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 11 minutes.
Oct 11 06:02: Magnitude recalculated from 5.0 to 5.5.
Date & time: 11 Oct 2018 05:47:33 UTC
Magnitude: 5.5
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 49.24°N / 156.13°E (North Pacific Ocean, Russia)
Nearest volcano: Nemo Peak (102 km / 63 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
160 km (99 mi) S of Severo-Kuril'sk (pop: 2,420) --> See nearby quakes!
440 km (274 mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk (Yelizovsky District) (pop: 25,200) --> See nearby quakes!
458 km (285 mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (pop: 187,300) --> See nearby quakes!
466 km (290 mi) SSW of Yelizovo (pop: 40,700) --> See nearby quakes!
7031 km (4369 mi) NE of Moscow (pop: 10,381,200) --> See nearby quakes!
102 km (63 mi) ESE of Onekotan Island --> See nearby quakes!
185 km (115 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
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 5.510 kmKuril IslandsGFZ
M 5.220 km KURIL ISLANDSEMSC
M 5.226 km- 163km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, RussiaUSGS
M 5.246 kmKuril IslandsGeoAu

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Moderate mag. 5.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 458 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 05:47 (GMT)
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