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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on September 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.8594S, 157.1081WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 72 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (45 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/25 / 2025-08-20 02:33:48 / August 20, 2025 @ 2:33 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:33:48 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 157.1081 East, latitude 50.8594 North, depth = 80.863 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80.863 km (50 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qwb6. Id of event: us7000qwb6.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 twenty, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six 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: 72 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.1081° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8594° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.863 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km ENE 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 2025-08-20 02:33:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-16 22:42:49 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us7000qwb6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qwb6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qwb6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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