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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.9363S, 159.4229WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 130 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (81 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.4229 East, latitude 51.9363 North, depth = 46.013 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:10:32 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.013 km (29 miles). Event id: us6000qxp2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qxp2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 17:10:32 / August 2, 2025 @ 5:10 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 130 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4229° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.013 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 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 17:10:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-02 18:54:30 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 131 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000qxp2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxp2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxp2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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