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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on October 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.2693S, 159.268WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 194 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (121 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/09/25 / 2025-09-12 18:32:17 / September 12, 2025 @ 6:32 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.426 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:32:17 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000relk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000relk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 159.268 East, latitude 51.2693 North, depth = 34.426 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 194 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.268° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.426 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 194 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 2025-09-12 18:32:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-08 14:02:07 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 298 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us6000relk Id of event.
Event Code 6000relk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000relk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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