Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 158.8922° East, latitude 52.2211° North, depth = 72.65 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qu4j. Unique identifier: us7000qu4j. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/25 / 2025-08-11 22:17:34 / August 11, 2025 @ 10:17 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.65 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:17:34 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 85 km SSE 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	158.8922° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.2211° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85 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 22:17:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-08 00:00:21	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.817	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us7000qu4j	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qu4j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qu4j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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