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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 48.6424S, 154.2192WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 265 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (165 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003ln0. Id of event: us20003ln0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 23:02:32 / September 18, 2015 @ 11:02 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 154.2192 East, latitude 48.6424 North, depth = 36.67 km. The temblor was detected at 10:02:32 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.67 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 six and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 265 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.2192° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.6424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-18 23:02:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 00:35:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 326 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.984 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us20003ln0 Id of event.
Event Code 20003ln0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ln0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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