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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.897S, 157.3324WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 121 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (75 miles). Exact location, longitude 157.3324° East, latitude 49.897° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 02:48:34 / August 31, 2025 @ 2:48 am. Unique identifier: us6000rcky. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rcky. The temblor was picked up at 02:48:34 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 121 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.3324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121 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 2025-08-31 02:48:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-24 23:31:30 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us6000rcky Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rcky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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