Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/11/25 / 2025-11-07 01:35:17 / November 7, 2025 @ 1:35 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.963 km (47 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:35:17 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 158.6914 East, latitude 52.1299 North, depth = 74.963 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rm16. Id of event: us6000rm16. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	158.6914° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.1299° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.963 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91 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	2025-11-07 01:35:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-07 01:49:39	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us6000rm16	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rm16	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rm16,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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