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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia


Earthquake location 50.8487S, 157.1178WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 72 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (45 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.542 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/25 / 2025-09-07 21:24:59 / September 7, 2025 @ 9:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 157.1178 East, latitude 50.8487 North, depth = 78.542 km. Unique identifier: us7000qulz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qulz. The temblor was reported at 21:24:59 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 72 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.1178° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8487° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.542 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-07 21:24:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-07 21:43:05 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 385 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.291 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us7000qulz Id of event.
Event Code 7000qulz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qulz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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