Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Kuril Islands

A earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). Global time and date of event 08/12/24 / 2024-12-08 10:25:01 / December 8, 2024 @ 10:25 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 10:25:01 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 220.486 km (137 miles). Exact location, longitude 152.317° East, latitude 48.8353° North, depth = 220.486 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nx17. Event ids that are associated: us7000nx17.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Kuril Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.317° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.8353° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	220.486 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	2024-12-08 10:25:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-08 10:40:21	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	3.356	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	572	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	121	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.463	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nx17	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nx17	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nx17,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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