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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 44.3031S, 148.7212WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 122 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia (76 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/18 / 2018-01-20 20:47:09 / January 20, 2018 @ 8:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 148.7212° East, latitude 44.3031° North, depth = 35 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:47:09 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cdrh. Unique identifier: us1000cdrh.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 122 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.7212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122km SSE 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 2018-01-20 20:47:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 04:52:23 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 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 4.409 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us1000cdrh Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdrh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdrh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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