Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kuril Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Kuril Islands (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 12:33:33 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 12:33:33 / October 28, 2025 @ 12:33 pm. Unique identifier: us6000rnyp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnyp. Exact location of event, longitude 152.5981 East, latitude 47.875 North, depth = 128.917 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 128.917 km (80 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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. 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: Kuril Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	152.5981° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.875° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	128.917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kuril Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-28 12:33:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-20 10:46:57	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	271	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	6.166	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us6000rnyp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rnyp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnyp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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