A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 204 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (127 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/25 / 2025-08-28 14:16:31 / August 28, 2025 @ 2:16 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 156.0893° East, 48.8324° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:16:31 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qrjt. Id of event: us7000qrjt. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 204 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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