Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, northwest of the Kuril Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported northwest of the Kuril Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 371.534 km (231 miles). Unique identifier: us6000nn5v. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nn5v. Exact location of event, longitude 148.6093 East, latitude 48.1408 North, depth = 371.534 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 03:21:58 / August 28, 2024 @ 3:21 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:21:58 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	148.6093° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.1408° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	371.534 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	northwest of the 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	2024-08-28 03:21:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-30 00:21:18	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	234	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us6000nn5v	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nn5v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nn5v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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