Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r10q. Unique identifier: us6000r10q. 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 00:40:59 / July 30, 2025 @ 12:40 am. The temblor was detected at 00:40:59 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.268 km (36 miles). Exact location of event, depth 57.268 km, 159.2508° East, 52.5351° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

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 three hundred and twenty-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.2508° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.5351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.268 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 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	2025-07-30 00:40:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-18 04:10:16	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.61	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us6000r10q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r10q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r10q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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