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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.2067S, 156.0912WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 163 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (101 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 46.26 km, 156.0912° East, 49.2067° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 17:43:43 / April 20, 2017 @ 5:43 pm. The temblor was picked up at 03:43:43 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10008jc2. Event ids that are associated: us10008jc2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.26 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 163 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.0912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163km S 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 2017-04-20 17:43:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 18:31:45 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 4.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us10008jc2 Id of event.
Event Code 10008jc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008jc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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