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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.6628S, 155.3344WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 126 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (78 miles). Event id: us20004v4t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004v4t. The temblor was detected at 04:36:40 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 133.46 km (83 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/16 / 2016-01-27 18:36:40 / January 27, 2016 @ 6:36 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 155.3344° East, 49.6628° North, depth 133.46 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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: 126 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.3344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.6628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km 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 2016-01-27 18:36:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-25 15:06:11 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 271 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 3.754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us20004v4t Id of event.
Event Code 20004v4t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004v4t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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