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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.5197S, 159.6181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 177 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (110 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qytk. Id of event: us6000qytk. Exact location of event, depth 45.442 km, 159.6181° East, 51.5197° North. The temblor was picked up at 08:45:42 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/25 / 2025-08-07 08:45:42 / August 7, 2025 @ 8:45 am. 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 45.442 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 177 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.442 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 177 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 2025-08-07 08:45:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 13:32:17 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 112 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.619 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 81 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 us6000qytk Id of event.
Event Code 6000qytk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qytk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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