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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 167 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

Posted by admin on October 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.578S, 159.4889WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 167 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (104 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:59:38 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 11.663 km (7 miles). Event id: us6000rf65. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rf65. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/25 / 2025-10-06 19:59:38 / October 6, 2025 @ 7:59 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.4889 East, latitude 51.578 North, depth = 11.663 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and sixty-three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 167 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4889° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.578° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.663 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167 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 2025-10-06 19:59:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-06 20:25:17 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 369 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.537 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000rf65 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rf65 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rf65, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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