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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on September 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.1922S, 156.1935WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 165 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (103 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 15:10:12 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 156.1935° East, latitude 49.1922° North, depth = 91.356 km. Id of earthquake: us7000qxds. Event ids that are associated: us7000qxds. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/25 / 2025-08-26 15:10:12 / August 26, 2025 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.356 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 fifteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 165 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.1935° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.356 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165 km S 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 2025-08-26 15:10:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-20 21:41:20 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 298 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 4.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us7000qxds Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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