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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.2604S, 158.787WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 247 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (153 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 158.787 East, latitude 49.2604 North, depth = 33.57 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.57 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:32:45 / 2:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 03:32:45 / March 25, 2020 @ 3:32 am. Id of earthquake: us70008ixs. Event ids that are associated: us70008ixs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 247 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2604° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 247km SE 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 03:32:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 00:51:22 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 326 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 3.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us70008ixs Id of event.
Event Code 70008ixs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ixs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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