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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Kuanda in Russia

Posted by admin on May 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.1443S, 117.2397WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Kuanda in Russia. Event id: us7000pzzf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzzf. Exact location, longitude 117.2397° East, latitude 56.1443° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 07:26:29 / May 18, 2025 @ 7:26 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:26:29 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Kuanda (c. 9 600 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuanda (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 74 km ESE of Kuanda, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 117.2397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.1443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km ESE of Kuanda, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-18 07:26:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-18 07:50:35 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 340 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.772 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000pzzf Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzzf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzzf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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