A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Otrada in Russia. The epicenter was at a depth of 152.027 km (94 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qudf. Unique identifier: us6000qudf. Global time and date of event 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 15:15:52 / July 23, 2025 @ 3:15 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 152.027 km, 146.5582° East, 44.4322° North. The temblor was picked up at 15:15:52 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yuzhno-Kuril’sk. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Yuzhno-Kuril’sk (c. 6 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 68 km NE of Otrada, Russia.
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