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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 48.8626S, 156.1001WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 201 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (125 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:45:44 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rj7y. Unique identifier: us6000rj7y. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 156.1001 East, latitude 48.8626 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/25 / 2025-10-05 04:45:44 / October 5, 2025 @ 4:45 am UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 201 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.1001° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.8626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201 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 2025-10-05 04:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-26 00:52:01 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 326 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000rj7y Id of event.
Event Code 6000rj7y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rj7y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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