A 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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