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USGS usp000azud

7 Mar 2002, 00:07

northwest of the Kuril Islands

A magnitude 5.6 mwc earthquake at 440.4 km depth.

Depth440.4 kmPublished hypocentral depth

Tsunami flagNot flaggedUSGS catalog flag, not a current warning

Updated2 May 2022Latest timestamp stored in this record

Published location

Where is northwest of the Kuril Islands?

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47.880000, 146.958000

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Catalog fields and provenance

Event ID

usp000azud

Coordinates

47.88, 146.958

Network

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Significance

482