Interesting place for a 6 mag earthquake. Is Putin weapon testing ??
" Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land or Francis Joseph's Land (Russian: Земля́ Фра́нца-Ио́сифа, tr. Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is an archipelago, inhabited only by Russian military base personnel, located in the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea and Kara Sea, constituting the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_LandBelow is USGS info.
M6.0 - north of Franz Josef Land
Preliminary Earthquake Report Magnitude 6.0
Date-Time
* 28 Oct 2017 19:11:02 UTC
* 28 Oct 2017 19:11:02 near epicenter
* 28 Oct 2017 13:11:02 standard time in your timezone [CDT]
Location 86.893N 55.135E
Depth 10 km
Distances
* 1070.1 km (663.4 mi) NE of Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
* 1916.8 km (1188.4 mi) NNE of Vadsø, Norway
* 1950.0 km (1209.0 mi) NE of Alta, Norway
* 1984.0 km (1230.1 mi) NNE of Zaozërsk, Russia
* 1986.9 km (1231.9 mi) NNE of Zapolyarnyy, Russia
Event ID us 1000ay3r