Strong earthquake: M6.7 quake has struck near Kuril Islands

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) strikes Kuril Islands (0 miles) on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 158 km (98 miles). Unique identifier: pt24362000. Ids that are associated to the event: pt24362000. The temblor was reported at 12:47:00 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/24 / 2024-12-27 12:47:00 / December 27, 2024 @ 12:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kuril Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 151.7 East, latitude 46.8 North, depth = 158 km.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Kuril Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.7° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	158 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	2024-12-27 12:47:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-27 12:57:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	691	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pt	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	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	pt24362000	Id of event.
Event Code	24362000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt24362000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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