Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 249 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 249 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (155 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 157.4485° East, 48.6044° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000qu46. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qu46. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/25 / 2025-08-11 09:23:17 / August 11, 2025 @ 9:23 am. The temblor was picked up at 09:23:17 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 249 km SSE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	157.4485° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.6044° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	249 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	2025-08-11 09:23:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-08 06:14:40	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	259	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.49	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	136	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	us7000qu46	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qu46	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qu46,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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