May 24, 2013 Earthquake: Severo Kurilskiye, Russia

Felt (V) at Severo-Kuril'sk; (IV) at Tymovskoye and

Uglegorsk; (III) at Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk and

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. Also felt at Berdsk, Moscow, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy and Samara. Felt (II) at Delhi and Gurgaon, India. Also felt at Chandigarh and Noida. Felt (II) at Tokyo, Japan. Also felt at Aomori and Furukawa and in Sapporo, Sendai and Yokohama. Felt at Vancouver, Canada; Chongqing, Chengdu and Xichang, China; Astana and Atyrau,

Kazakhstan. Felt (II) at Anchor Point and Juneau, Alaska. Also felt at Homer, Kodiak, Palmer and Petersburg. Felt at Goleta and Irvine, California. Also felt at Honolulu, Hawaii and at Seattle, Washington. Recorded (3 JMA) in northern Hokkaido and in Chiba, Honshu. (reference #1053)

On 24 May 2013 the largest deep earthquake yet recorded occurred near a depth of 609 km [05:44:49 UTC, 54.874 N, 153.281 E] in the Pacific plate subducting along the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone. The event locates under the Sea of Okhotsk. Globally recorded long-period seismic waves indicate that the overall earthquake process appears to involve shear faulting with a seismic moment of ~4.1 × 1021 N·m [momentmagnitude (Mw) = 8.3]. (reference #10740)