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7.2 Earthquake Kuril Islands
A very strong but luckily deep earthquake magnitude 7.2 struck off the coast, sparsely populated, Kuril Islands on April 19, 2013 at 03:05 UTC. USGS reports depth of 122 km, EMSC measured 100km. A tsunami was not generated and no tsunami warning was issued. JMA still reports depth of only 10 km which will probably get corrected soon. Epicenter was located 250 km (155 miles) ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia and 521 km (323 miles) NE of Nemuro, Japan, at coordinates 46.182°N, 150.796°E.
There are about 400 people living within. GDACS reported that this earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.
The Kuril-Kamchatka arc has frequent moderate-to-large earthquakes, and has hosted over three-dozen M 6.5+ events within 250 km of the today’s earthquake over the past 40 years. It is considered one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
The hypocenter or focal depth occurred in hot solid mantle of Earth. Earthquake was felt as far as Tokyo, 1500 km away from the epicenter. (ER)
At 03:15 UTC a magnitude 5.7 aftershock was recorded at the same area and with approximately same depth of 120 km, USGS reported
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/04…l-islands/
Globalincidentmap Report:
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/map_…?id=444319
2013-04-19 04:45:06
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-7-2-earthquake-kuril-islands
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