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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 182 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 49.2149S, 154.9766WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 182 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (113 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 03:46:10 / September 20, 2015 @ 3:46 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003m3c. Unique identifier: us20003m3c. Exact location of event, longitude 154.9766 East, latitude 49.2149 North, depth = 71.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.95 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 14:46:10 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 182 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.9766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2149° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km SSW of Severo-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 2015-09-20 03:46:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 04:05:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 4.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us20003m3c Id of event.
Event Code 20003m3c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003m3c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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