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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.8258S, 160.1825WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (107 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:45:54 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.1825 East, latitude 51.8258 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:45:54 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0qh. Unique identifier: us6000r0qh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fifty-two, in the last 10 days seven hundred and ten, in the past 30 days seven hundred and ten and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.1825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8258° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172 km SE 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 23:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-17 22:38:11 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 416 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us6000r0qh Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0qh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0qh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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