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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 66 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 52.4461S, 158.9869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:23:23 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rfhx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rfhx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.942 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 23:23:23 / October 7, 2025 @ 11:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 158.9869° East, latitude 52.4461° North, depth = 69.942 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.9869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.942 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km SE 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 2025-10-07 23:23:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-08 03:44:38 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 312 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us6000rfhx Id of event.
Event Code 6000rfhx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rfhx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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