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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.5577S, 159.5384WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 171 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (106 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/10/25 / 2025-10-05 17:10:24 / October 5, 2025 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:10:24 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rez6. Unique identifier: us6000rez6. Exact location of earthquake, 159.5384° East, 51.5577° North, depth 10 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and fifty-six 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 171 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.5384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171 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 17:10:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-05 17:27:31 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 416 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.566 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 122 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 us6000rez6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rez6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rez6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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