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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 218 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 51.4995S, 160.5889WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 218 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (135 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 160.5889° East, latitude 51.4995° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 03:19:18 / August 6, 2025 @ 3:19 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:19:18 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qyg9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyg9.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventy-eight, in the last 10 days seven hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 218 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.5889° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 218 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 2025-08-06 03:19:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-04 02:54:59 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us6000qyg9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyg9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyg9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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