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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 52.1557S, 159.6723WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 121 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (75 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:47:30 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000rdlm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rdlm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/25 / 2025-11-25 04:47:30 / November 25, 2025 @ 4:47 am. Exact location of earthquake, 159.6723° East, 52.1557° North, depth 45.919 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.919 km (29 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 121 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6723° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.919 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121 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 2025-11-25 04:47:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-25 05:05:18 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 385 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 95 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.535 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us7000rdlm Id of event.
Event Code 7000rdlm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rdlm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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