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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 50.3802S, 156.5204WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 43 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (27 miles) on Friday. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:16:02 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rg2s. Event ids that are associated: us6000rg2s. The epicenter was at a depth of 76.347 km (47 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.5204 East, latitude 50.3802 North, depth = 76.347 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: 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 11:16:02 / October 10, 2025 @ 11:16 am.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.5204° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.3802° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.347 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 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 2025-10-10 11:16:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-10 11:37:32 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 4.171 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 482 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000rg2s Id of event.
Event Code 6000rg2s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rg2s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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