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Major earthquake 7.5 mag, 219 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 48.9864S, 157.6933WA major earthquake with magnitude 7.5 (ml/mb) was reported 219 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (136 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 02:49:21 / March 25, 2020 @ 2:49 am. Id of earthquake: us70008fi4. Event ids that are associated: at00q7qai7, pt20085000, us70008fi4. The temblor was detected at 13:49:21 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.65 km (35 miles). Exact location of event, depth 56.65 km, 157.6933° East, 48.9864° North.

Every year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 219 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.6933° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.9864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 219km SSE 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 2020-03-25 02:49:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 03:10:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 1 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 867 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 ,at,pt,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 4.087 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008fi4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008fi4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q7qai7,pt20085000,us70008fi4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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