Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kuril’sk in Russia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 132 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia (82 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 149.3501 East, latitude 44.6618 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 05:00:26 / November 21, 2025 @ 5:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtnb. Unique identifier: us6000rtnb. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:00:26 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 132 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	149.3501° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.6618° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	132 km ESE of 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	2025-11-21 05:00:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-13 06:18:17	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.873	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	179	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	us6000rtnb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtnb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtnb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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