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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 186 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 51.3924S, 159.4934WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 186 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (116 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.587 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us6000rez1. Id of event: us6000rez1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/25 / 2025-10-05 16:01:29 / October 5, 2025 @ 4:01 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:01:29 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 159.4934° East, 51.3924° North, depth 28.587 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 186 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.587 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186 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 2025-10-05 16:01:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-05 16:47:41 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us6000rez1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rez1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rez1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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