Overall Green Earthquake in Russia on 30 Jul 2025 03:13 UTC

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M 5.5 in Russia on 30 Jul 2025 03:13 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.7044 , 159.5564
Event Date:	30 Jul 2025 03:13 UTC 30 Jul 2025 14:13 Local
Exposed Population:	250 thousand in MMI III
Source:	NEIC us6000qw8r
Inserted at:	30 Jul 2025 03:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000qw8r	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0
	Score no CC	0

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

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Episode Timeline

ID	Level	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1651353		0	30 Jul 2025 03:13	5.5M, 10km	3.39	N/A (in MMI>=VII)		00:30	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Russian Federation ,of Kamchatskaya oblast'. The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity	Population
	no people

Shakemaps Timeline

Shake id #	episodeid	Lat/Lon	Magnitude	Depth	Max MMI	Date shake (UTC)	Delay (hh:mm)
1	1651353	159.556/51.704	5.5	10	3.822	30 Jul 2025 03:49	00:36	(new episode)
2	1651353	159.556/51.704	5.5	10	3.822	30 Jul 2025 05:49	02:36	(upd of #1)
3	1651353	159.556/51.704	5.5	10	3.804	31 Jul 2025 14:04	1d 10:51	(upd of #2)

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	no people
Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	43000 people
Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	no people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Vilyuy	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	139 km
Ust-Kotelnoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	160 km
Nalacheva	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	164 km
Paratunka	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	164 km
Nikolayevka	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	169 km
Ostrovnoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	173 km
Elizovo	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	187 km

see full list

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Intensity	Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)	Distance
	Petropavlovsk-Kamchats	PKC	84	Civ.	Paved	Yes	11100	180 km

More information

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