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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on August 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.3046S, 159.2205WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.95 km (35 miles). Exact location, longitude 159.2205° East, latitude 52.3046° North, depth = 56.95 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:04:43 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/25 / 2025-08-05 02:04:43 / August 5, 2025 @ 2:04 am. 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: us7000qrq5. Unique identifier: us7000qrq5.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk. The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 88 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.2205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 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 2025-08-05 02:04:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-29 10:06:23 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 us7000qrq5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qrq5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qrq5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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