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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 200 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 51.3303S, 159.7379WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 200 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (124 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/25 / 2025-08-11 15:29:44 / August 11, 2025 @ 3:29 pm. Exact location, longitude 159.7379° East, latitude 51.3303° North, depth = 24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000qu48. Event ids that are associated: us7000qu48. The temblor was detected at 15:29:44 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

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 eighty-six, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days nine hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 200 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.7379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3303° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 200 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 2025-08-11 15:29:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-07 17:14:05 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 284 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us7000qu48 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qu48 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qu48, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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