A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 191 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (119 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:15:09 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.7148 East, latitude 50.1982 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qx8u. Unique identifier: us6000qx8u. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/25 / 2025-08-01 09:15:09 / August 1, 2025 @ 9:15 am.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 eighteen, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 191 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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