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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on July 31, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.6581S, 158.0834WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 138 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (86 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:06:45 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qws9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qws9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.412 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 00:06:45 / July 31, 2025 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 158.0834 East, latitude 50.6581 North, depth = 50.412 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days sixty 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 138 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.0834° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.6581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.412 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138 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 2025-07-31 00:06:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-31 00:24:37 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 2.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us6000qws9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qws9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qws9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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