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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.1504S, 156.2744WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 169 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (105 miles) on Friday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:06:41 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 156.2744° East, 49.1504° North, depth 25.967 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/25 / 2025-08-15 19:06:41 / August 15, 2025 @ 7:06 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.967 km (16 miles). Event id: us6000r1hq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r1hq.

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 three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventy-six and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 169 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.2744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1504° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.967 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 169 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 2025-08-15 19:06:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 14:49:39 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 312 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 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us6000r1hq Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1hq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1hq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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