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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3198S, 159.7408WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 201 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (125 miles). Global time and date of event 15/08/25 / 2025-08-15 05:25:16 / August 15, 2025 @ 5:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 159.7408° East, 51.3198° North. Event id: us6000r0wu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0wu. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:25:16 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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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: 201 km SSE 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 159.7408° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 201 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 2025-08-15 05:25:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-15 05:48:01 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us6000r0wu Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0wu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0wu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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