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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 144 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

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Earthquake location 51.8385S, 159.5442WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 144 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (89 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 00:24:10 / July 30, 2025 @ 12:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 159.5442 East, latitude 51.8385 North, depth = 35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r1ga. Id of event: us6000r1ga. The temblor was reported at 00:24:10 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and seventy, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 144 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5442° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144 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 2025-07-30 00:24:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-22 00:56:32 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000r1ga Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1ga An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1ga, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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