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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.5792S, 158.922WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/25 / 2025-11-13 02:51:25 / November 13, 2025 @ 2:51 am. Unique identifier: us6000rn23. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rn23. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85.193 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 02:51:25 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 85.193 km, 158.922° East, 52.5792° North.

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and nine 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5792° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.193 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 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 2025-11-13 02:51:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-15 05:10:19 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 271 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us6000rn23 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rn23 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rn23, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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