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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.8732S, 158.2404WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes 118 kilometers (73 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 77.829 km (48 miles). Unique identifier: us6000r0qc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0qc. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:36:06 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:36 pm. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:36:06 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.2404 East, latitude 51.8732 North, depth = 77.829 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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

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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: 118 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.2404° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.829 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118 km S 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 23:36:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-15 00:33:00 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000r0qc Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0qc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0qc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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