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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 170 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

Posted by admin on August 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.5494S, 159.4998WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 170 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (106 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:17:20 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 23:17:20 / July 30, 2025 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000r1cg. Event ids that are associated: us6000r1cg. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 159.4998° East, 51.5494° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and eighty-five, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 170 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4998° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170 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 23:17:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-27 05:33:49 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 385 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us6000r1cg Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1cg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1cg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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