Magnitude 5.5 KURIL ISLANDS

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	5.5
Date-Time	Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 10:17:45 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 10:17:45 PM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	48.821°N, 154.797°E
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	KURIL ISLANDS
Distances	230 km (140 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Kuril Islands, Russia 540 km (335 miles) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 1905 km (1190 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan 7050 km (4370 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 4.9 km (3.0 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=167, Nph=167, Dmin=540.4 km, Rmss=0.8 sec, Gp=115°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2007ckat