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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, Kuril Islands


Earthquake location 48.5856S, 153.2089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). Global time and date of event 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 10:38:37 / April 17, 2020 @ 10:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:38:37 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 153.2089 East, latitude 48.5856 North, depth = 141.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008yde. Unique identifier: us70008yde. The epicenter was at a depth of 141.36 km (88 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Kuril Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.2089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.5856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kuril Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-17 10:38:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-17 11:48:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 271 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 5.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us70008yde Id of event.
Event Code 70008yde An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008yde, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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