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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.7666S, 159.3837WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 145 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (90 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:43:10 / 4:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.3837 East, latitude 51.7666 North, depth = 37.239 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.239 km (23 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 16:43:10 / September 30, 2025 @ 4:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rdt9. Id of event: us6000rdt9.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 145 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.3837° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.239 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145 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 2025-09-30 16:43:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-30 17:08:17 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 400 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 us6000rdt9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rdt9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rdt9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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