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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.2047S, 159.7078WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 211 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (131 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:14:09 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000r0y8. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0y8. Exact location of event, longitude 159.7078 East, latitude 51.2047 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/25 / 2025-08-15 02:14:09 / August 15, 2025 @ 2:14 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 211 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.7078° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2047° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 211 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 02:14:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 21:06:34 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 298 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us6000r0y8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0y8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0y8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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