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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.2528S, 159.9104WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 213 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (132 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:50:56 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). 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: 14/08/25 / 2025-08-14 01:50:56 / August 14, 2025 @ 1:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.9104 East, latitude 51.2528 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000qut8. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qut8. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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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 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: 213 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.9104° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 213 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 2025-08-14 01:50:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-10 01:28:43 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 27 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 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us7000qut8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qut8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qut8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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