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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.1911S, 157.307WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 99 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (62 miles) on Saturday. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:20:25 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 17:20:25 / August 2, 2025 @ 5:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.307 East, latitude 50.1911 North, depth = 46.691 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qxp3. Event ids that are associated: us6000qxp3. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.691 km (29 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 99 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.1911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.691 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99 km ESE 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 2025-08-02 17:20:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-02 17:38:33 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 449 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 118 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us6000qxp3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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