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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 240 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 48.7866S, 154.5091WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 240 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (149 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 15:38:03 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 154.5091 East, latitude 48.7866 North, depth = 80.415 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/25 / 2025-11-09 15:38:03 / November 9, 2025 @ 3:38 pm. Event id: us7000redc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000redc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80.415 km (50 miles).

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

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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: 240 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.5091° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.7866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.415 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 240 km SSW 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 2025-11-09 15:38:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-28 20:04:45 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 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.773 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us7000redc Id of event.
Event Code 7000redc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000redc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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