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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.2816S, 157.3749WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 98 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (61 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:01:04 / 12:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 00:01:04 / July 30, 2025 @ 12:01 am. Exact location, longitude 157.3749° East, latitude 50.2816° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000r10g. Event ids that are associated: us6000r10g.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and ten, in the last 10 days two hundred and ten, in the past 30 days two hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 98 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.3749° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.2816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 km ESE 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 00:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-18 03:59:37 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 10.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000r10g Id of event.
Event Code 6000r10g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r10g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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