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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 46.7346S, 150.4587WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 260 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia (162 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 165.42 km (103 miles). Unique identifier: us10006c7d. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006c7d. Global time and date of event 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 00:06:47 / August 9, 2016 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:06:47 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 150.4587 East, latitude 46.7346 North, depth = 165.42 km.

Each 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 three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 260 km NE of Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.4587° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.7346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km 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 2016-08-09 00:06:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-21 04:13:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 312 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 5.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 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 us10006c7d Id of event.
Event Code 10006c7d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006c7d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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