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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.0305S, 158.3556WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/25 / 2025-08-01 13:44:19 / August 1, 2025 @ 1:44 pm. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:44:19 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 158.3556° East, 52.0305° North, depth 72.617 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72.617 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000qxae. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qxae.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 100 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.3556° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.617 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km S 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 2025-08-01 13:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-01 13:59:31 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 482 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qxae Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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