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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Yuzhno-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.7309S, 145.9876WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.9876 East, latitude 43.7309 North, depth = 102.22 km. The temblor was reported at 01:29:41 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000au6e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000au6e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/10/17 / 2017-10-11 15:29:41 / October 11, 2017 @ 3:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.22 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shibetsu, Nemuro, Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Shibetsu (c. 21 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km SSE of Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9876° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.7309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE of Yuzhno-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 2017-10-11 15:29:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-23 23:19:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 259 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 2.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us1000au6e Id of event.
Event Code 1000au6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000au6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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