Major earthquake, 7 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A major earthquake magnitude 7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 142 kilometers (88 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Global time and date of event 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 06:28:21 / July 20, 2025 @ 6:28 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 46 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:28:21 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 160.6° East, latitude 52.6° North, depth = 46 km. Unique identifier: at00szopz9. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25201000, at00szopz9.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 140 km (87 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 142 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.6° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.6° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	142 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-20 06:28:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-20 06:37:35	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	1	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	754	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	77	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125.99998992	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00szopz9	Id of event.
Event Code	00szopz9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25201000,at00szopz9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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