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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 59 km S of Shikotan, Russia


Earthquake location 43.2631S, 146.6395WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Shikotan in Russia on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/24 / 2024-10-25 06:31:50 / October 25, 2024 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 146.6395° East, latitude 43.2631° North, depth = 82.22 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nn2q. Unique identifier: us7000nn2q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:31:50 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82.22 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nemuro. Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 59 km S of Shikotan, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.6395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.2631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 km S of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-25 06:31:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-25 06:51:34 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 369 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us7000nn2q Id of event.
Event Code 7000nn2q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nn2q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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