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


Earthquake location 46.2201S, 150.6956WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 244 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia (152 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70003n3i. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003n3i. The temblor was reported at 07:25:43 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 150.6956 East, latitude 46.2201 North, depth = 115.98 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 20:25:43 / May 18, 2019 @ 8:25 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.98 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 244 km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.6956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.2201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 244km 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 2019-05-18 20:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-18 22:02:58 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 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 5.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us70003n3i Id of event.
Event Code 70003n3i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003n3i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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