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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on November 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.9965S, 148.5542WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 147 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia (91 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 22:54:36 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hvw7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hvw7. Exact location of event, longitude 148.5542 East, latitude 43.9965 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 18/11/18 / 2018-11-18 12:54:36 / November 18, 2018 @ 12:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 147 km SSE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.5542° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.9965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km 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 2018-11-18 12:54:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-30 11:39:40 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 298 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 4.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us1000hvw7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hvw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hvw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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