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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.7114S, 156.8208WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 118 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (73 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 156.8208 East, latitude 49.7114 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qwgx. Unique identifier: us6000qwgx. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:08:48 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 12:08:48 / July 30, 2025 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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: 118 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.8208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.7114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118 km 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 2025-07-30 12:08:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 12:33:44 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 354 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.446 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 136 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 us6000qwgx Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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