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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.5454S, 159.2787WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 165 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (103 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rfm0. Unique identifier: us7000rfm0. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:43:05 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.2787 East, latitude 51.5454 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/25 / 2025-12-04 19:43:05 / December 4, 2025 @ 7:43 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 165 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.2787° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5454° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165 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 2025-12-04 19:43:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-04 20:06:45 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 340 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.53 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us7000rfm0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rfm0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rfm0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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