A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 15:32:27 / July 20, 2025 @ 3:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:32:27 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qe2a. Id of event: us7000qe2a. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 160.1502° East, 52.7003° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 110 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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