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

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 147 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia (91 miles) on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ms9z. Id of event: us7000ms9z. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 149.5353 East, latitude 44.6231 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:56:01 / 12:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/24 / 2024-06-14 00:56:01 / June 14, 2024 @ 12:56 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 147 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.5353° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.6231° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	147 km ESE 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	2024-06-14 00:56:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-14 01:10:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.003	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	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	us7000ms9z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ms9z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ms9z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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