Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kuril Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Kuril Islands (0 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.629 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 15:14:41 / July 12, 2024 @ 3:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 151.7719 East, latitude 45.4531 North, depth = 36.629 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:14:41 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000neid. Unique identifier: us6000neid.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.7719° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.4531° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.629 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	2024-07-12 15:14:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-22 17:18:29	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	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.433	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	us6000neid	Id of event.
Event Code	6000neid	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000neid,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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