Light earthquake 4.4 mag, Kuril Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:34:57 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 149.49 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.159 East, latitude 48.4279 North, depth = 149.49 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005c4e. Id of event: us10005c4e. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/04/16 / 2016-04-28 07:34:57 / April 28, 2016 @ 7:34 am.

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 has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Kuril Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	153.159° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.4279° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	149.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kuril Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-28 07:34:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-28 08:09:26	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	298	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	5.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us10005c4e	Id of event.
Event Code	10005c4e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005c4e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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