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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.2017S, 159.611WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 209 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (130 miles) on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:26:59 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000quth. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000quth. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/08/25 / 2025-08-14 12:26:59 / August 14, 2025 @ 12:26 pm. Exact location, longitude 159.611° East, latitude 51.2017° North, depth = 10 km. 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days nine hundred and one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 209 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.611° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 209 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 12:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-11 07:52:50 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 259 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.918 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000quth Id of event.
Event Code 7000quth An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000quth, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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