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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia

Posted by admin on December 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.4783S, 159.4124WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 175 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (109 miles) on Monday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:32:20 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rta5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rta5. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.87 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 01:32:20 / December 8, 2025 @ 1:32 am. Exact location of event, longitude 159.4124 East, latitude 51.4783 North, depth = 27.87 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 175 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4124° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175 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 2025-12-08 01:32:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 01:48:37 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 416 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 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 us6000rta5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rta5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rta5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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