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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near the Kuril Islands

Posted by admin on February 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.634S, 152.1443WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Northwest of the Kuril Islands (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 152.1443° East, 52.634° North, depth 486.07 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 486.07 km (302 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:17:33 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 22:17:33 / January 11, 2018 @ 10:17 pm. Unique identifier: us2000cpb7. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cpb7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Northwest of the Kuril Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 152.1443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.634° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 486.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Northwest of the 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 2018-01-11 22:17:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-03 05:57:55 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 3.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us2000cpb7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpb7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpb7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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