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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Shikotan in Russia

Posted by admin on August 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.3705S, 147.5724WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 83 km SE of Shikotan, Russia (52 miles) on Wednesday. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:54 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.5724 East, latitude 43.3705 North, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2l7. Unique identifier: us6000r2l7. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/25 / 2025-08-20 21:24:54 / August 20, 2025 @ 9:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 83 km SE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.5724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.3705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km SE of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-20 21:24:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-20 21:42:05 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us6000r2l7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2l7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2l7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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