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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.7101S, 158.6661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 137 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (85 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 06:42:14 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/25 / 2025-08-24 06:42:14 / August 24, 2025 @ 6:42 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r3fz. Unique identifier: us6000r3fz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.6661 East, latitude 51.7101 North, depth = 31.608 km. 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 31.608 km (20 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 137 km S of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.6661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.608 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137 km S 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 2025-08-24 06:42:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-24 09:30:30 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 298 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.315 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000r3fz Id of event.
Event Code 6000r3fz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r3fz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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