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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 54 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 52.5797S, 158.9708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 158.9708 East, latitude 52.5797 North, depth = 96.006 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96.006 km (60 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:14:59 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rlbt. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rlbt. Global time and date of event 04/11/25 / 2025-11-04 05:14:59 / November 4, 2025 @ 5:14 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

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

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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. 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: 54 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.9708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.006 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 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 05:14:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-04 05:53:58 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 354 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us6000rlbt Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlbt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlbt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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