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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.4324S, 155.9105WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 139 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (86 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.01 km (26 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 155.9105 East, latitude 49.4324 North, depth = 42.01 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/18 / 2018-10-14 03:44:19 / October 14, 2018 @ 3:44 am. The temblor was detected at 13:44:19 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hdzf. Id of event: us1000hdzf.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 139 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.9105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.4324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139km 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 2018-10-14 03:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-19 03:26:47 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 298 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 3.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us1000hdzf Id of event.
Event Code 1000hdzf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hdzf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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