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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Ust’-Barguzin in Russia


Earthquake location 53.9554S, 108.6211WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Ust’-Barguzin in Russia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:35:58 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000qilq. Event ids that are associated: us6000qilq. Exact location of event, longitude 108.6211 East, latitude 53.9554 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/06/25 / 2025-06-07 02:35:58 / June 7, 2025 @ 2:35 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barguzin, Ust’-Barguzin (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Ust’-Barguzin (c. 7 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barguzin (c. 6 100 pop).

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 in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km NNW of Ust’-Barguzin, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 108.6211° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.9554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km NNW of Ust’-Barguzin, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-07 02:35:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-07 21:25:34 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.782 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us6000qilq Id of event.
Event Code 6000qilq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qilq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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