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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on July 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.9274S, 160.8117WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 147 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (91 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 07:22:58 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.8117 East, latitude 52.9274 North, depth = 9.431 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 07:22:58 / July 20, 2025 @ 7:22 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qdz2. Unique identifier: us7000qdz2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.431 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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: 147 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.8117° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9274° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.431 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147 km E 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 07:22:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-20 07:38:51 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 670 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 171 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qdz2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdz2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qdz2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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