Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kuril’sk in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 152 km E of Kuril’sk, Russia (94 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 54.66 km (34 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 01:30:08 / April 2, 2020 @ 1:30 am. The temblor was detected at 12:30:08 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70008rhs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008rhs. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.8001 East, latitude 45.4574 North, depth = 54.66 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 152 km E of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.8001° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.4574° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	152km E of 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	2020-04-02 01:30:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-20 00:18:23	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	259	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	5.301	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us70008rhs	Id of event.
Event Code	70008rhs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008rhs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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