Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Shikotan in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Shikotan in Russia on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.621 km (36 miles). Event id: us7000ppc5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ppc5. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:16 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 146.3734° East, 43.5131° North, depth 57.621 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/25 / 2025-04-01 22:04:16 / April 1, 2025 @ 10:04 pm.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk, Nemuro.

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km SW of Shikotan, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	146.3734° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.5131° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.621 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km SW 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	2025-04-01 22:04:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-01 22:51:55	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.802	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us7000ppc5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ppc5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ppc5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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