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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.6968S, 160.3565WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 191 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (119 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 160.3565 East, latitude 51.6968 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 02:37:40 / July 22, 2025 @ 2:37 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:37:40 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qyjr. Event ids that are associated: us6000qyjr.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and nineteen, in the last 10 days four hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirteen 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: 191 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3565° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6968° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 191 km SE 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 2025-07-22 02:37:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-11 13:33:11 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 284 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.691 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us6000qyjr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyjr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyjr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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