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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Ozernovskiy in Russia

Posted by admin on August 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.5215S, 159.8992WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 261 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia (162 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.064 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:02:38 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.8992 East, latitude 50.5215 North, depth = 40.064 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qz5u. Id of event: us6000qz5u. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 16:02:38 / August 8, 2025 @ 4:02 pm.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 261 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.8992° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.064 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-08 16:02:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 16:43:02 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 312 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us6000qz5u Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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