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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8877S, 159.121WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 125 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (78 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 159.121 East, latitude 51.8877 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000r0q2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0q2. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:34:53 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:34:53 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:34 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days four hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 125 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125 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 2025-07-29 23:34:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-15 00:19:58 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 536 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000r0q2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0q2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0q2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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