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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 95 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia


Earthquake location 52.1978S, 159.1223WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Vilyuchinsk in Russia. The temblor was picked up at 05:38:21 / 5:38 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 earthquake, 159.1223° East, 52.1978° North, depth 81.397 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/25 / 2025-11-23 05:38:21 / November 23, 2025 @ 5:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 81.397 km (51 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rpwt. Unique identifier: us6000rpwt.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk. Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.1223° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.397 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 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 2025-11-23 05:38:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-23 06:04:18 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 326 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us6000rpwt Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpwt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpwt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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