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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.8638S, 159.3229WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 245 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (152 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/03/17 / 2017-03-19 06:14:55 / March 19, 2017 @ 6:14 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008t52. Unique identifier: us20008t52. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.3229 East, latitude 49.8638 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:14:55 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 245 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.3229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.8638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245km ESE 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 2017-03-19 06:14:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-19 06:40:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 3.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us20008t52 Id of event.
Event Code 20008t52 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008t52, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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