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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.4792S, 159.2342WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. Exact location of event, longitude 159.2342 East, latitude 52.4792 North, depth = 88.377 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.377 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000rlew. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rlew. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/25 / 2025-11-04 15:51:50 / November 4, 2025 @ 3:51 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:51:50 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 75 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.2342° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4792° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.377 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 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 2025-11-04 15:51:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-04 19:40:02 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 us6000rlew Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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