6.0 Mwp – KURIL ISLANDS | Coast Emergency Communications Association

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude	6.0 Mwp
Date-Time	9 Sep 2012 05:39:20 UTC 9 Sep 2012 17:39:20 near epicenter 8 Sep 2012 21:39:20 standard time in your timezone
Location	49.473N 155.517E
Depth	56 km
Distances	141 km (88 miles) SSW (198 degrees) of Severo-Kuril’sk, Kuril Islands, Russia 450 km (280 miles) SSW (210 degrees) of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 1998 km (1241 miles) NE (35 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty	Horizontal: 19.5 km; Vertical 8.5 km
Parameters	Nph = 468; Dmin = 432.9 km; Rmss = 0.72 seconds; Gp = 116° M-type = Mwp; Version = 6
Event ID	us c000cjd2

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