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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.734S, 159.5148WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (95 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:02:11 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 159.5148° East, 51.734° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 01:02:11 / July 30, 2025 @ 1:02 am. Unique identifier: us6000r1gl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1gl.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and eighty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 153 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5148° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153 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 2025-07-30 01:02:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-16 06:56:18 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 385 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000r1gl Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1gl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1gl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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