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Moderate earthquake 5.9 mag, 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia


Earthquake location 50.6387S, 157.5236WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (61 miles). Event id: us6000qw87. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qw87. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.187 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:30:41 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 43.187 km, 157.5236° East, 50.6387° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 02:30:41 / July 30, 2025 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.5236° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.6387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.187 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, 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 02:30:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 03:02:04 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 536 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 130 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us6000qw87 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qw87 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qw87, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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