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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.5227S, 155.5378WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 134 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (83 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.836 km (50 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000r221. Event ids that are associated: us6000r221. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/25 / 2025-08-19 14:41:18 / August 19, 2025 @ 2:41 pm. Exact location, longitude 155.5378° East, latitude 49.5227° North, depth = 80.836 km. The temblor was detected at 14:41:18 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twelve, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 134 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.5378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.5227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.836 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134 km SSW 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 2025-08-19 14:41:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-19 14:59:10 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 167 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us6000r221 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r221 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r221, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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