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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.746S, 155.8694WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (65 miles) on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/25 / 2025-08-14 16:46:56 / August 14, 2025 @ 4:46 pm. Event id: us6000r0sb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0sb. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:56 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.353 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 155.8694 East, latitude 49.746 North, depth = 54.353 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 104 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.8694° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.353 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km S 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 2025-08-14 16:46:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-14 17:03:31 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 385 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.556 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us6000r0sb Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0sb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0sb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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