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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 44.6858S, 150.5164WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 216 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia (134 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.31 km (26 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 02:29:11 / September 12, 2015 @ 2:29 am. The temblor was reported at 12:29:11 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.5164 East, latitude 44.6858 North, depth = 42.31 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003iza. Unique identifier: us20003iza.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 216 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.5164° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.6858° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km ESE of Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-12 02:29:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 03:35:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003iza Id of event.
Event Code 20003iza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003iza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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