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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 49.7072S, 155.8944WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 108 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (67 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 08:40:26 / July 30, 2025 @ 8:40 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:40:26 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.13 km (40 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000qwe5. Event ids that are associated: us6000qwe5. Exact location of event, longitude 155.8944 East, latitude 49.7072 North, depth = 64.13 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 108 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 155.8944° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.7072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 km S 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 08:40:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 09:27:52 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 385 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 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.588 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us6000qwe5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwe5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwe5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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