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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.9276S, 159.6141WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 261 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (162 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 159.6141 East, latitude 49.9276 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/25 / 2025-08-03 16:25:28 / August 3, 2025 @ 4:25 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:25:28 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qxwz. Unique identifier: us6000qxwz.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 261 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261 km ESE 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 2025-08-03 16:25:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-03 16:52:35 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us6000qxwz Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxwz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxwz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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