A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Yelizovo in Russia. Global time and date of event 09/05/25 / 2025-05-09 17:44:53 / May 9, 2025 @ 5:44 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 17:44:53 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pyau. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pyau. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 128.8 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 158.7694° East, 53.454° North, depth 128.8 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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