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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Barabash in Russia

Posted by admin on August 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.4237S, 131.4356WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Barabash in Russia. Id of earthquake: us7000qrt5. Event ids that are associated: us7000qrt5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/08/25 / 2025-08-29 03:18:46 / August 29, 2025 @ 3:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:18:46 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 541.434 km (336 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 131.4356 East, latitude 43.4237 North, depth = 541.434 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lipovtsy, Novoshakhtinskiy, Smolyaninovo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Vladivostok (c. 587 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ussuriysk (c. 157 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Artëm (c. 102 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Dongning (c. 61 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bol’shoy Kamen’ (c. 38 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Trudovoye (c. 18 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, China (c. 1 330 044 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km N of Barabash, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 131.4356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 541.434 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km N of Barabash, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-29 03:18:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-29 21:33:38 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000qrt5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qrt5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qrt5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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