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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.1985S, 159.7925WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 124 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (77 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 20:02:21 / July 30, 2025 @ 8:02 pm. Event id: us6000qwps. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qwps. The temblor was picked up at 20:02:21 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 159.7925° East, 52.1985° North, depth 36.229 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.229 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 124 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.7925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.229 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124 km SE 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 2025-07-30 20:02:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 20:49:35 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 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 385 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 229 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us6000qwps Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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