Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 108 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 108 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia (67 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/25 / 2025-12-18 14:42:38 / December 18, 2025 @ 2:42 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rvpe. Event ids that are associated: us6000rvpe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:42:38 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 147.963 East, latitude 43.4313 North, depth = 40.187 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.187 km (25 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 108 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	147.963° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.4313° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.187 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	108 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	2025-12-18 14:42:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-19 14:06:13	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.813	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	us6000rvpe	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rvpe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rvpe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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