Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Beringovskiy in Russia

Earthquake location 62.793S, 178.251W A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 63 km WSW of Beringovskiy, Russia (39 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.251 East, latitude 62.793 North, depth = 28 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:49:59 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Beringovskiy in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/05/25 / 2025-05-11 21:49:59 / May 11, 2025 @ 9:49 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00sw49zb. Unique identifier: at00sw49zb.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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. 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: 63 km WSW of Beringovskiy, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.251° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.793° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km WSW of Beringovskiy, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-11 21:49:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-11 21:56:55	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	1	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	432	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.635307	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107.99999136	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00sw49zb	Id of event.
Event Code	00sw49zb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sw49zb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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