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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 45.8483S, 150.3639WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 205 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia (127 miles). Global time and date of event 28/08/18 / 2018-08-28 06:12:31 / August 28, 2018 @ 6:12 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000gihi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gihi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 150.3639 East, latitude 45.8483 North, depth = 116.79 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:12:31 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116.79 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 205 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.3639° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 205km ENE 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 2018-08-28 06:12:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-28 06:32:26 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 312 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 5.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us1000gihi Id of event.
Event Code 1000gihi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gihi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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