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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.8236S, 157.4965WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (61 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us7000qr8h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qr8h. 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: 27/08/25 / 2025-08-27 03:49:51 / August 27, 2025 @ 3:49 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.408 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:49:51 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 157.4965° East, latitude 50.8236° North, depth = 53.408 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.4965° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8236° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.408 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km E 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 2025-08-27 03:49:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-27 04:08:01 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 554 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 123 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000qr8h Id of event.
Event Code 7000qr8h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qr8h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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