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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.0839S, 159.174WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 107 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (66 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 02:25:05 / July 30, 2025 @ 2:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 159.174° East, 52.0839° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000qw83. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qw83. The temblor was picked up at 02:25:05 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 107 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.174° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0839° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-30 02:25:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 03:17:53 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 400 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us6000qw83 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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