Global warming effects on number of earthquakes , flood ,typhoons and tsunamis.An earthquake of about 6 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Sakhalin One person dies, several injured . The epicenter of earthquake was in a Nevelsk The quake had a magnitude of 6.8 points in the epicenter.. In city there are destructions and submission of an electricity is stopped.
The first wave of a tsunami caused by earthquake has reached coast of the Japanese island Hokkaido, the following wave of a tsunami in height up to half meter was expected Hokkaido . One hundred and twenty children were evacuated from Nevelsk to the Lastochka children’s recreation center on Friday morning, and 300 elderly people were moved to regional health centers by train.
Earthquake details according to Earthquake Center of USGS
· Magnitude 5.3
· Date-Time * Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 08:06:29 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
* Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 7:06:29 PM = local time at epicenter
· Location 46.751°N, 141.758°E
· Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
· Region SAKHALIN, RUSSIA
· Distances *80 km (50 miles) WSW of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
*145 km (90 miles) N of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan
*1245 km (770 miles) N of TOKYO, Japan
*6645 km (4120 miles) NE of MOSCOW, Russia
· Location Uncertainty - horizontal +/- 6.2 km (3.9 miles); depth fixed by location program
· Parameters Nst=203, Nph=203, Dmin=79.4 km, Rmss=0.76 sec, Gp=115° M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=Q
· Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
· Event ID us2007fna3
Tremors in area of Sakhalin will not cause a tsunami in area of Kamchatka and Commander islands. The person on responsibility of station of forecasting of a tsunami of the Kamchatka management of hydrometeorology has informed on it
The position of an epicenter of earthquakes in Tatar canal allows to speak confidently about absence of threat of a tsunami for the areas located to the north from Sakhalin.
” Insignificant increase of a water level is possible, however threat of occurrence of destructive waves is not present “, - the representative of management of hydrometeorology has told.
Earthquake of magnitude 6,8 has happened in the south of Sakhalin on Thursday The epicenter of earthquake settled down approximately in 60 kilometers from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in area of Nevelsk. Tremors were felt in all settlements of the south of Sakhalin.
Force of quake has made in Nevelsk 6-7 points, in Holmsk - 5-6, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - 3-4 points. More than 100 earth shocks registered in Sakhalin.
On Saturday, 27 May, 1995, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale struck northern Sakhalin Island in Russia.
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