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Magnitude 6.8 PRIMOR'YE, RUSSIA

2003 July 27 06:25:33 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

World Location

Regional Location

Magnitude 6.8
Date-Time 2003 07 27 06:25:33 UTC
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 47.17N 139.24E
Depth 481.4 kilometers
Region PRIMOR'YE, RUSSIA
Reference 270 km (165 miles) W of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
270 km (170 miles) NW of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan
1275 km (790 miles) N of TOKYO, Japan
6480 km (4020 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia
Source USGS NEIC

NB: The region name is an automatically generated name from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme. The boundaries of these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from irregular political boundaries. More->


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