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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.7265S, 160.0193WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 173 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (107 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:32 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.278 km (17 miles). Exact location, longitude 160.0193° East, latitude 51.7265° North, depth = 27.278 km. Global time and date of event 23/08/25 / 2025-08-23 07:58:32 / August 23, 2025 @ 7:58 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000r3ak. Event ids that are associated: us6000r3ak.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days six hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 173 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.0193° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.278 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173 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 2025-08-23 07:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-23 11:25:44 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 312 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000r3ak Id of event.
Event Code 6000r3ak An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r3ak, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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