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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Shikotan in Russia

Posted by admin on December 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 43.4794S, 147.8122WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 94 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia (58 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rwbj. Id of event: us6000rwbj. Exact location, longitude 147.8122° East, latitude 43.4794° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 21/12/25 / 2025-12-21 03:52:41 / December 21, 2025 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:52:41 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter).

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 nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 94 km ESE of Shikotan, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8122° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.4794° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 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 03:52:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-24 02:30:57 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.728 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000rwbj Id of event.
Event Code 6000rwbj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rwbj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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