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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 162 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia

Posted by admin on August 3, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.3366S, 158.3504WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 162 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (101 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:09:59 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/25 / 2025-08-03 00:09:59 / August 3, 2025 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000qxrx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qxrx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.21 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 158.3504 East, latitude 50.3366 North, depth = 22.21 km.

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 162 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.3504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.3366° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162 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 2025-08-03 00:09:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-03 00:49:07 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 385 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 2.697 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 115 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 us6000qxrx Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxrx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxrx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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