A very strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean 113 km (70 mi) from Russia in the early afternoon of Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015 at 3.43 pm local time (GMT +10). The quake had a very shallow depth of 10 km (6 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so).
Date & time | Oct 14, 2015 05:43:08 UTC |
Local time at epicenter | Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015, at 03:43 pm (GMT +10) |
Status | Confirmed |
Magnitude | 6.0 |
Depth | 10.0 km |
Epicenter latitude / longitude | 48.89°N / 156.23°E North Pacific Ocean, Russia |
Seismic antipode | 48.89°S / 23.77°W |
Shaking intensity | Strong shaking near epicenter |
Felt | 0 reports |
Primary data source | GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) |
Nearest volcano | Tao-Rusyr (129 km / 80 mi) |
Estimated seismic energy released | 6.3 x 1013 joules (17.5 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 15080 tons of TNT or 0.9 atomic bombs!) | about seismic energy |
Distance | Place | Max. shaking intensity(*) | Region | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
199 km (123 mi) N of epicenter |
Severo-Kuril'sk (pop: 2,420) |
IV: Light |
Sakhalin | |
291 km (181 mi) N of epicenter |
Ozernovskiy (pop: 2,620) |
III: Weak |
Kamchatka |
Mag | Depth | Time GMT 2015-10-14 |
Epicenter | Agency |
---|---|---|---|---|
6.0 | 10 km 6.2 mi (*) |
05:43:08 | East of Kuril Islands | GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) |
5.9 | 10 km 6.2 mi (*) |
05:43:08 | EAST OF KURIL ISLANDS 7.9 km (4.9 mi) epicenter difference with GFZ |
EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) |
5.9 | 6 km 3.7 mi |
05:43:07 | - 203km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 4.5 km (2.8 mi) epicenter difference with GFZ |
USGS (United States Geological Survey) |
6.0 | 20 km 12 mi |
05:43:08 | 千岛群岛 2.5 km (1.5 mi) epicenter difference with GFZ |
CEIC (China Earthquake Networks Center) |
Date and Time GMT | Mag Depth | Distance | Region | Details |
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Oct 15, 2015 02:30 am (GMT +10) 8 years ago 11 hours after main shock | 4.3 45 km | 18 km (11 mi) NW of main shock | KURIL ISLANDS | More |
Oct 15, 2015 01:16 am (GMT +10) 8 years ago 10 hours after main shock | 4.3 45 km | 5.1 km (3.2 mi) W of main shock | EAST OF KURIL ISLANDS | More |
Oct 14, 2015 08:10 pm (GMT +10) 8 years ago 4 hours after main shock | 4.2 45 km | 9.7 km (6.1 mi) NE of main shock | EAST OF KURIL ISLANDS | More |
Oct 14, 2015 06:38 pm (GMT +10) 8 years ago 2 hours and 56 minutes after main shock | 4.5 45 km | 21 km (13 mi) N of main shock | KURIL ISLANDS | More |
Oct 14, 2015 04:57 pm (GMT +10) 8 years ago 1 hour and 15 minutes after main shock | 4.7 40 km | 2.7 km (1.7 mi) NW of main shock | Russia, 196 km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Sakhalin | More |
Oct 14, 2015 03:49 pm (GMT +10) 8 years ago 7 minutes after main shock | 5.1 10 km | 6.1 km (3.8 mi) NE of main shock | East of Kuril Islands | More |
Oct 14, 2015 03:43 pm (GMT +10) 8 years ago | 6.0 10 km | 0 km - This quake | North Pacific Ocean, Russia, 475 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovsky District, Kamchatka Main Shock (this quake) | More |