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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 50.6407S, 157.067WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 66 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (41 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:31:04 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rj7q. Id of event: us6000rj7q. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.067 East, latitude 50.6407 North, depth = 69.815 km. Global time and date of event 04/10/25 / 2025-10-04 23:31:04 / October 4, 2025 @ 11:31 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69.815 km (43 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.067° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.6407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.815 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km E 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 2025-10-04 23:31:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-28 23:37:12 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 298 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 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 us6000rj7q Id of event.
Event Code 6000rj7q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rj7q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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