7.0 Earthquake in Russia

[sharon sanders]

Earthquake hits Russia .. والفيضانات تقتل 33 برازيليا And floods kill 33 Brasilia
موسكو - وكالات الأنباء: وقع زلزال عنيف بلغت قوته 7 درجات علي مقياس ريختر في بحر اوخوتسك في اقصي شمال روسيا.

MOSCOW - News Agencies: A strong earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale struck in the Sea of Okhotsk in the far north of Russia. وذلك حسبما اعلن معهد الجيوفيزيا. And the Institute of Geophysics said. الامريكي. U.S..
ارتفعت حصيلة ضحايا الفيضانات التي اجتاحت ولاية "سانتا كاتارينا" البرازيلية الي 33 قتيلا وتشريد اكثر من عشرين الف اخرين. The death toll from floods that swept the state, "Santa Catarina" the Brazilian to 33 people and displaced more than twenty thousand others.


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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: 7.0 Earthquake in Russia

Earthquake Details

<TABLE id=parameters summary="Earthquake Details"><TBODY><TR><TH>Magnitude</TH><TD>7.3</TD></TR><TR><TH>Date-Time</TH><TD>

• Monday, November 24, 2008 at 09:02:58 UTC
• Monday, November 24, 2008 at 08:02:58 PM at epicenter
• Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

</TD></TR><TR><TH>Location</TH><TD>54.194°N, 154.315°E</TD></TR><TR><TH>Depth</TH><TD>491.6 km (305.5 miles)</TD></TR><TR><TH>Region</TH><TD>SEA OF OKHOTSK</TD></TR><TR><TH>Distances</TH><TD>315 km (195 miles) WNW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
410 km (255 miles) NNW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia
2355 km (1460 miles) NNE of TOKYO, Japan
6540 km (4060 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia


</TD></TR><TR><TH>Location Uncertainty</TH><TD>horizontal +/- 3.7 km (2.3 miles); depth +/- 5.8 km (3.6 miles)</TD></TR><TR><TH>Parameters</TH><TD>NST=374, Nph=374, Dmin=254.8 km, Rmss=0.82 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=8

</TD></TR><TR><TH>Source</TH><TD>

• USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

</TD></TR><TR><TH>Event ID</TH><TD>us2008zuat</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008zuat.php

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: 7.0 Earthquake in Russia

This area is over a plunging plate. It's very seismically active. Historic seismicity map:



http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2008/eq_081124_zuat/neic_zuat_h.html