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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.1048S, 157.2801WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 103 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (64 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.446 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:49:11 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.2801 East, latitude 50.1048 North, depth = 30.446 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/25 / 2025-10-17 08:49:11 / October 17, 2025 @ 8:49 am. Event id: us6000rhre. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhre.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 103 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.2801° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.1048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.446 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 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 2025-10-17 08:49:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 09:06:45 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 369 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000rhre Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhre An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhre, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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