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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 51.7611S, 160.063WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (107 miles). Unique identifier: us6000r0z3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r0z3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.419 km (16 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:20:00 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 25.419 km, 160.063° East, 51.7611° North. Global time and date of event 15/08/25 / 2025-08-15 14:20:00 / August 15, 2025 @ 2:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 172 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.063° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7611° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.419 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 172 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 2025-08-15 14:20:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-08 11:01:28 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 312 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us6000r0z3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0z3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0z3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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