Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Kuril Islands

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.214 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/25 / 2025-07-03 21:09:15 / July 3, 2025 @ 9:09 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000qaj8. Event ids that are associated: us7000qaj8. The temblor was detected at 21:09:15 / 9:09 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, longitude 151.3443 East, latitude 46.7821 North, depth = 111.214 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	151.3443° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.7821° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111.214 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	2025-07-03 21:09:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-03 21:38:48	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	369	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.889	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qaj8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qaj8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qaj8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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