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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3253S, 159.3691WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 190 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (118 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:12:48 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/25 / 2025-08-18 10:12:48 / August 18, 2025 @ 10:12 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r1uy. Id of event: us6000r1uy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 159.3691 East, latitude 51.3253 North, depth = 10 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 190 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.3691° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 190 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 2025-08-18 10:12:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-18 10:31:39 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000r1uy Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1uy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1uy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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