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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Shikotan in Russia

Posted by admin on December 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.4524S, 148.1737WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 123 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia (76 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/25 / 2025-12-17 01:44:10 / December 17, 2025 @ 1:44 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.1737 East, latitude 43.4524 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:44:10 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rve6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rve6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 123 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.1737° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-17 01:44:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-17 02:02:14 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us6000rve6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rve6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rve6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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