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Great earthquake, 8 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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A great earthquake with magnitude 8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 136 kilometers (85 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.263 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.396 East, latitude 52.4732 North, depth = 19.263 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:24:50 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:24:50 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:24 pm. Event id: us6000qw60. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00t06p1k, us6000qw60, pt25210002.

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 134 km (83 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 157 km (98 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 143 km (89 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1-2 great earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 8.0 or greater can totally destroy communities near the epicenter.

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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. 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: 136 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia Vilyuchinsk Yelizovo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.396° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.4732° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.263 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	136 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	2025-07-29 23:24:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-29 23:47:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	985	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	,at,us,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	119	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.196	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.61 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	us6000qw60	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qw60	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00t06p1k,us6000qw60,pt25210002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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