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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 50.7572S, 156.9368WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000py7k. Unique identifier: us7000py7k. Global time and date of event 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 21:02:18 / April 23, 2025 @ 9:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:02:18 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 67.042 km, 156.9368° East, 50.7572° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.042 km (42 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 57 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.9368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.7572° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.042 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km E 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 2025-04-23 21:02:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-14 03:57:04 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 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.401 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 134 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 us7000py7k Id of event.
Event Code 7000py7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000py7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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