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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.6676S, 159.4966WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 159 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (99 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rc4p. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rc4p. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.643 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/09/25 / 2025-09-22 17:51:46 / September 22, 2025 @ 5:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 36.643 km, 159.4966° East, 51.6676° North. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:51:46 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter).

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 seven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 159 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.643 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159 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 2025-09-22 17:51:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-22 18:09:46 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 326 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000rc4p Id of event.
Event Code 6000rc4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rc4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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