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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0706S, 160.7325WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 261 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (162 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.193 km (17 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:51:23 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 15:51:23 / July 31, 2025 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2gj. Unique identifier: us6000r2gj. Exact location of event, longitude 160.7325 East, latitude 51.0706 North, depth = 27.193 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and sixteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 261 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7325° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.193 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261 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 2025-07-31 15:51:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-23 20:27:23 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 246 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 2.34 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 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 us6000r2gj Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2gj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2gj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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