EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

Earthquake Information

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Regional seismicity

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Summary:

Magnitude	mb 4.1
Region	EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS

Date time	2009-01-15 at 21:24:26.5 UTC
Location	47.24 N ; 155.34 E
Depth	33 km
Distances	684 km S Petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy (pop 187,282 ; local time 09:24 2009-01-16) 689 km S Mokhovaya, petropavlovsk-kamch (pop 22,815 ; local time 09:24 2009-01-16) 387 km S Severo-kurilsk (pop 2,286 ; local time 08:24 2009-01-16)
More seismicity information (Moment tensors, phases pickings, etc.)

Maps:


Global view	Regional view	Local view

References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

More information at:

USGS/NEIC Denver, USA

Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences Obninsk, Russia

List of data providers:

Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences, Obninsk, Russia (GSRC)

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