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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Vilyuchinsk in Russia


Earthquake location 51.6885S, 160.1973WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 184 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia (114 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rw49. Id of event: us6000rw49. Exact location of earthquake, 160.1973° East, 51.6885° North, depth 16.396 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/25 / 2025-12-20 00:24:52 / December 20, 2025 @ 12:24 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.396 km (10 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:24:52 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 184 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.1973° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.396 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184 km SE 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 2025-12-20 00:24:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-20 01:00:59 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 369 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.639 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 132 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 us6000rw49 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rw49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rw49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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