Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 45 km southeast of Ostrov Kambal’nyy Island, Kamchatka, Russia, on Saturday, 27 September 1952 at 19:05 (GMT)
Quake Data | Interactive map | User Reports | Aftershocks | Earlier quakes in same area | Quakes in Russia | Sakhalin Oblast | Kamchatka | Moscow
Strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake at 60 km depth
Magnitude: 6.2
Depth: 60.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 50.756°N / 157.063°E
(North Pacific Ocean, Russia)Nearest volcano: Vysokii (42 km / 26 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
67 km (41 mi) E of Severo-Kuril'sk (pop: 2,420) --> See nearby quakes!
259 km (161 mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk (Yelizovsky District) (pop: 25,200) --> See nearby quakes!
277 km (172 mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (pop: 187,300) --> See nearby quakes!
285 km (177 mi) SSW of Yelizovo (pop: 40,700) --> See nearby quakes!
451 km (280 mi) SSW of Mil'kovo (Milkovsky District) (pop: 8,250) --> See nearby quakes!
6927 km (4304 mi) NE of Moscow (pop: 10,381,200) --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: USGS (United States Geological Survey)
Estimated released energy: 1.3 x 1014 joules (35 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 30089 tons of TNT or 1.9 atomic bombs!) More info
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.
| Magnitude | Depth | Location | Source |
| M 6.2 | 60 km | Kuril Islands (Russia) | USGS |
User reports for this quake
User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
There are no user reports for this quake yet. If you felt it be the first to report it!
Aftershocks of the 6.2 quake North Pacific Ocean, 45 km southeast of Ostrov Kambal’nyy Island, Kamchatka, Russia, 27 September 1952 19:05 GMT
More info
Recorded aftershocks, latest first (8 quakes):- 18 Nov 1952 08:13 UTC| M 6.1 |35.8 km (22.2 mi) depth|65 km (41 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.1 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 80 km southeast of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Tuesday, 18 November 1952 at 08:13 (GMT)
- 13 Nov 1952 07:58 UTC| M 6.5 |45 km (28 mi) depth|4 km (3 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 67 km east of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Thursday, 13 November 1952 at 07:58 (GMT)
- 10 Nov 1952 06:06 UTC| M 6.1 |30 km (18.6 mi) depth|38 km (23 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.1 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 67 km southeast of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Monday, 10 November 1952 at 06:06 (GMT)
- 07 Nov 1952 14:08 UTC| M 6.5 |54.1 km (33.6 mi) depth|62 km (39 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 19 km east of Ostrov Chaykina Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Friday, 7 November 1952 at 14:08 (GMT)
- 05 Nov 1952 20:30 UTC| M 6.0 |23 km (14.3 mi) depth|71 km (44 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.0 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 80 km southeast of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Wednesday, 5 November 1952 at 20:30 (GMT)
- 05 Nov 1952 02:20 UTC| M 6.3 |54.2 km (33.7 mi) depth|37 km (23 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 41 km east of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, on Wednesday, 5 November 1952 at 02:20 (GMT)
- 04 Nov 1952 23:29 UTC| M 6.2 |30 km (18.6 mi) depth|63 km (39 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 268 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday, 4 November 1952 at 23:29 (GMT)
- 04 Nov 1952 20:48 UTC| M 6.9 |30 km (18.6 mi) depth|39 km (24 mi) distance| USGS | Strong mag. 6.9 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 80 km southeast of Ostrov Kambal’nyy Island, Kamchatka, Russia, on Tuesday, 4 November 1952 at 20:48 (GMT)
Earlier earthquakes in the same area
Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 45 km southeast of Ostrov Kambal’nyy Island, Kamchatka, Russia, on Saturday, 27 September 1952 at 19:05 (GMT)
Click here to search our database for earlier earthquakes in the same area since 1900!
