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


Earthquake location 49.2661S, 158.8334WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 249 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (155 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:33:55 / 2:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.5 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 03:33:55 / March 25, 2020 @ 3:33 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us70008iyv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008iyv. Exact location of event, longitude 158.8334 East, latitude 49.2661 North, depth = 35.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 249 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.8334° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 249km 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 03:33:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 01:29:37 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 3.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us70008iyv Id of event.
Event Code 70008iyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008iyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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