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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.1571S, 156.1925WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 169 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (105 miles). Unique identifier: us10003p1y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003p1y. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/15 / 2015-10-16 04:48:36 / October 16, 2015 @ 4:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.1925 East, latitude 49.1571 North, depth = 42.38 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:48:36 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 42.38 km (26 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 169 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.1925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 169km S 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 2015-10-16 04:48:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 05:10:25 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 4.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us10003p1y Id of event.
Event Code 10003p1y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003p1y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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