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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near the Kuril Islands


Earthquake location 46.1281S, 154.1536WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, East of the Kuril Islands (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us100041ap. Event ids that are associated: us100041ap. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.04 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:18:00 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 18:18:00 / November 25, 2015 @ 6:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 154.1536° East, 46.1281° North, depth 34.04 km.

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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: East of the Kuril Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.1536° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.1281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place East 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 2015-11-25 18:18:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 20:16:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 340 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 7.355 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us100041ap Id of event.
Event Code 100041ap An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041ap, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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