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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on May 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.2073S, 154.4442WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 203 km SW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (126 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 11:18:20 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/19 / 2019-05-17 00:18:20 / May 17, 2019 @ 12:18 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.47 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us60003rpq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003rpq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.4442 East, latitude 49.2073 North, depth = 117.47 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 203 km SW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.4442° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 203km SW of Severo-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 2019-05-17 00:18:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-25 04:49:16 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 4.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us60003rpq Id of event.
Event Code 60003rpq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rpq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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