Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Shikotan in Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 119 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia (74 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 00:19:00 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 148.037° East, latitude 43.3158° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/25 / 2025-12-21 00:19:00 / December 21, 2025 @ 12:19 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rw8v. Event ids that are associated: us6000rw8v.

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 eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 119 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	148.037° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.3158° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	119 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	2025-12-21 00:19:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-21 00:38:23	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	85	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us6000rw8v	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rw8v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rw8v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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