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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.4445S, 156.3231WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (18 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:42:02 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/08/25 / 2025-08-22 06:42:02 / August 22, 2025 @ 6:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 156.3231° East, latitude 50.4445° North, depth = 83.056 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83.056 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000r2zk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2zk.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: 29 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.3231° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.4445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.056 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km SSE 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 2025-08-22 06:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-22 07:00:32 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 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 us6000r2zk Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2zk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2zk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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