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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 160 km NNW of Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 46.6358S, 147.3827WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 160 km NNW of Kuril’sk, Russia (99 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:01:32 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005a91. Unique identifier: us20005a91. The epicenter was at a depth of 281.22 km (175 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.3827 East, latitude 46.6358 North, depth = 281.22 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 19:01:32 / March 16, 2016 @ 7:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 160 km NNW of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.3827° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.6358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 281.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km NNW 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 2016-03-16 19:01:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-16 21:15:06 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 312 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 3.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us20005a91 Id of event.
Event Code 20005a91 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a91, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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