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Major earthquake, 7.8 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49S, 157.7WA major earthquake with magnitude 7.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 218 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (135 miles). Event id: at00q7qai7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20085000, at00q7qai7. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 02:49:19 / March 25, 2020 @ 2:49 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:49:19 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.7 East, latitude 49 North, depth = 59 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 59 km (37 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 15 major 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: 218 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.7° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 218km SSE 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 2020-03-25 02:49:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 03:02:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 1 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 936 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 249 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35.99999712 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00q7qai7 Id of event.
Event Code 00q7qai7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20085000,at00q7qai7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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