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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 45.2817S, 147.5774WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 km WNW of Kuril’sk, Russia (15 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:16:25 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 162.21 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000a3b1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a3b1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.5774 East, latitude 45.2817 North, depth = 162.21 km. Global time and date of event 27/07/17 / 2017-07-27 22:16:25 / July 27, 2017 @ 10:16 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km WNW of 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 147.5774° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.2817° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WNW 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 2017-07-27 22:16:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 04:22:39 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 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 3.739 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us2000a3b1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a3b1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a3b1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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