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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 46.7136S, 150.5646WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 265 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia (165 miles) on Friday. Event id: us20005kmp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005kmp. Exact location, longitude 150.5646° East, latitude 46.7136° North, depth = 192.81 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:27:51 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/16 / 2016-04-21 20:27:51 / April 21, 2016 @ 8:27 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 192.81 km (120 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 NE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.5646° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.7136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 192.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 265km NE of 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 2016-04-21 20:27:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-21 21:55:37 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 271 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 5.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us20005kmp Id of event.
Event Code 20005kmp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005kmp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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