Overall Green Earthquake in Russia on 30 Jul 2025 09:56 UTC

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M 5.6 in Russia on 30 Jul 2025 09:56 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:	5.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	51.5779 , 159.9474
Event Date:	30 Jul 2025 09:56 UTC 30 Jul 2025 20:56 Local
Exposed Population:	220 thousand in MMI III
Source:	NEIC us6000qwfe
Inserted at:	30 Jul 2025 10:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	1.1 (Russia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000qwfe	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
1651514		0	30 Jul 2025 09:56	5.6M, 10km	3.1	N/A (in MMI>=VII)		00:20	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	1651514	159.947/51.578	5.6	10	3.451	30 Jul 2025 10:24	00:28	(new episode)
2	1651514	159.947/51.578	5.6	10	3.451	30 Jul 2025 12:23	02:27	(upd of #1)
3	1651514	159.947/51.578	5.6	10	3.439	31 Jul 2025 14:05	1d 04:09	(upd of #2)

Affected Provinces

Intensity	Region Province	Country	Population
	Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	22000 people
	Kamchatskaya oblast'	Russian Federation	no people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Ust-Kotelnoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	180 km
Nalacheva	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	182 km
Ostrovnoye	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	188 km
Zaychik	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	193 km
Nachiki	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	227 km
Sokoch	Kamchatskaya	Russia	Village	-	233 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
	Nachiki		300				0	225 km

More information

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