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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.6162S, 159.8505WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 176 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (109 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 159.8505° East, 51.6162° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 06:36:19 / August 6, 2025 @ 6:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:36:19 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000qyh2. Event ids that are associated: us6000qyh2.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 176 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8505° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176 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 2025-08-06 06:36:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 06:54:27 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 432 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qyh2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyh2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyh2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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