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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Kuril Islands


Earthquake location 46.5997S, 151.9783WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported Kuril Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.9783 East, latitude 46.5997 North, depth = 85.35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.35 km (53 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 02:39:56 / January 22, 2020 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007cjp. Id of event: us60007cjp. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:39:56 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.9783° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.5997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kuril Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-22 02:39:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 03:15:11 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 6.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us60007cjp Id of event.
Event Code 60007cjp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007cjp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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