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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 48.964S, 156.0534WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 190 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (118 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 11:23:26 / July 30, 2025 @ 11:23 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 156.0534 East, latitude 48.964 North, depth = 43.397 km. Id of earthquake: us6000r16d. Event ids that are associated: us6000r16d. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:23:26 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.397 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 sixty-seven, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 190 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 156.0534° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.964° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.397 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 190 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, 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 11:23:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-17 07:15:30 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 82 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us6000r16d Id of event.
Event Code 6000r16d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r16d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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