Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 31 km ESE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. The epicenter was at a depth of 80.02 km (50 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 158.8148 East, latitude 52.7973 North, depth = 80.02 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 11:26:55 / July 31, 2025 @ 11:26 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2k2. Id of event: us6000r2k2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:26:55 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km ESE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	158.8148° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.7973° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km ESE 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 11:26:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-30 07:04:38	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	271	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us6000r2k2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r2k2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r2k2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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