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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.8392S, 158.2586WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 121 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (75 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 79.477 km (49 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000r0py. Event ids that are associated: us6000r0py. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:50:27 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:50:27 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 158.2586° East, 51.8392° North, depth 79.477 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and seventy-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 121 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.2586° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.477 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121 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 23:50:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-17 22:57:12 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 432 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us6000r0py Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0py An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0py, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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