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


Earthquake location 50.0396S, 156.2166WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 71 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (44 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 156.2166 East, latitude 50.0396 North, depth = 83.79 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:30:00 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/04/19 / 2019-04-07 22:30:00 / April 7, 2019 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.79 km (52 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000kbzp. Event ids that are associated: us2000kbzp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 71 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 156.2166° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.0396° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2019-04-07 22:30:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 01:55:10 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 3.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 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 us2000kbzp Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbzp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbzp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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