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Magnitude 6.7 - KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION

2003 December 5 21:26:09 UTC

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Magnitude 6.7
Date-Time Friday, December 5, 2003 at 21:26:09 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 9:26:09 AM
= local time at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 55.500°N, 165.763°E
Depth 10 km (6 miles) set by location program
Region KOMANDORSKIYE OSTROVA, RUSSIA REGION
Distances
35 km (20 miles) NNW of Nikol'skoye, Komandorskiye Ostrova, Rus.
505 km (315 miles) SSE of Il'pyrskiy, Russia
540 km (335 miles) ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
6825 km (4240 miles) NNE of MOSCOW, Russia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 3.8 km (2.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst=425, Nph=425, Dmin=539.3 km, Rmss=0.98 sec, Gp= 47°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=U
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usbzbg


Preliminary Earthquake Report
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World Data Center for Seismology, Denver