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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.5349S, 159.8233WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 183 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (114 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.732 km (12 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:31:59 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 19.732 km, 159.8233° East, 51.5349° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qxnc. Id of event: us6000qxnc. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 14:31:59 / August 2, 2025 @ 2:31 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 183 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.732 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 183 km SSE 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 2025-08-02 14:31:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-02 14:57:42 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 340 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000qxnc Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxnc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxnc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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