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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Severo-Kuril’sk in Russia

Posted by admin on December 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.9047S, 157.0407WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 69 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia (43 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/25 / 2025-12-12 17:43:15 / December 12, 2025 @ 5:43 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:43:15 / 5:43 pm (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, longitude 157.0407 East, latitude 50.9047 North, depth = 88.643 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.643 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000ruhx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ruhx.

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 four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.0407° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9047° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.643 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km ENE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-12 17:43:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-12 17:59:32 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 99 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ruhx Id of event.
Event Code 6000ruhx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ruhx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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