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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.4477S, 159.5307WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 182 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (113 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 159.5307 East, latitude 51.4477 North, depth = 13.517 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:32:13 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qv8g. Event ids that are associated: us7000qv8g. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/08/25 / 2025-08-16 12:32:13 / August 16, 2025 @ 12:32 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.517 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 182 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.517 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182 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 2025-08-16 12:32:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-11 06:56:34 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us7000qv8g Id of event.
Event Code 7000qv8g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qv8g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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