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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on September 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.8427S, 158.0847WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 167 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (104 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.0847 East, latitude 49.8427 North, depth = 28.054 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:38:17 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/25 / 2025-08-19 04:38:17 / August 19, 2025 @ 4:38 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qvq5. Id of event: us7000qvq5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.054 km (17 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.0847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.8427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.054 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167 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 2025-08-19 04:38:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-16 03:02:03 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 284 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us7000qvq5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qvq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qvq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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