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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 46.7469S, 150.1566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 243 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia (151 miles). Unique identifier: us2000i612. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i612. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 180.04 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 03:51:27 / October 29, 2018 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 150.1566° East, 46.7469° North, depth 180.04 km. The temblor was reported at 13:51:27 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 243 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.1566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.7469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 180.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 243km NE 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 2018-10-29 03:51:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-13 05:18:54 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 284 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 5.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us2000i612 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i612 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i612, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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