Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 07:06:23 / July 20, 2025 @ 7:06 am. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:06:23 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000qdyz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qdyz. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 160.0427° East, 52.6653° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 103 km (64 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 105 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.0427° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.6653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	105 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 07:06:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-20 07:48:39	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	0	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	416	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	99	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.488	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qdyz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qdyz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qdyz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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