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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 48.9445S, 153.238WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 283 km SW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (176 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 155.76 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:41:20 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 153.238° East, 48.9445° North, depth 155.76 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095i3. Id of event: us100095i3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/17 / 2017-06-24 16:41:20 / June 24, 2017 @ 4:41 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 283 km SW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.238° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.9445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 283km SW 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 2017-06-24 16:41:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-24 16:00:43 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 259 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 5.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us100095i3 Id of event.
Event Code 100095i3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095i3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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