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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.1658S, 156.5766WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 171 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (106 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:38:35 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 156.5766° East, 49.1658° North, depth 35 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hcx1. Event ids that are associated: us1000hcx1. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 19:38:35 / October 10, 2018 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. 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: 171 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.5766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171km 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 2018-10-10 19:38:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 17:20:01 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 284 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 4.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us1000hcx1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcx1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcx1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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