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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 134 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 49.9086S, 157.5936WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 134 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (83 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 21:18:27 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1ax. Unique identifier: us6000r1ax. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 21:18:27 / July 30, 2025 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.879 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.5936 East, latitude 49.9086 North, depth = 24.879 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.5936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.879 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134 km SE 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 21:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-21 03:36:00 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 271 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000r1ax Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1ax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1ax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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