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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on September 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.8161S, 156.0027WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 95 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (59 miles). Exact location, longitude 156.0027° East, latitude 49.8161° North, depth = 73.355 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 20:33:56 / August 31, 2025 @ 8:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:33:56 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rclk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rclk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.355 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 95 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.0027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.8161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.355 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 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 2025-08-31 20:33:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-27 16:00:47 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 us6000rclk Id of event.
Event Code 6000rclk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rclk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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