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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.0998S, 156.215WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 175 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (109 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/25 / 2025-09-17 22:08:39 / September 17, 2025 @ 10:08 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:08:39 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.215 East, latitude 49.0998 North, depth = 44.781 km. Unique identifier: us6000rg6s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rg6s. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44.781 km (28 miles).

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

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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: 175 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.215° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.0998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.781 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175 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 2025-09-17 22:08:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-16 05:18:51 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 312 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000rg6s Id of event.
Event Code 6000rg6s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rg6s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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