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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.7488S, 159.4696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 150 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (93 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.031 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 13:58:42 / July 31, 2025 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 159.4696 East, latitude 51.7488 North, depth = 60.031 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:58:42 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2j4. Unique identifier: us6000r2j4.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and seventy-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-one 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 150 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.031 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150 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 2025-07-31 13:58:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-23 13:52:18 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 259 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us6000r2j4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2j4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2j4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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