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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

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Earthquake location 51.0696S, 160.7074WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 260 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (162 miles) on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us6000r01s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r01s. Global time and date of event 12/08/25 / 2025-08-12 08:22:28 / August 12, 2025 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:22:28 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.7074 East, latitude 51.0696 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 260 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7074° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260 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 2025-08-12 08:22:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-12 09:06:21 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 354 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 2.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us6000r01s Id of event.
Event Code 6000r01s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r01s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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