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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.4014S, 160.7226WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 159 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (99 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.7226 East, latitude 52.4014 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 07:45:05 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 07:45:05 / July 30, 2025 @ 7:45 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qwdi. Id of event: us6000qwdi.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 159 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7226° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159 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 2025-07-30 07:45:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-30 08:06:17 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 400 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.406 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000qwdi Id of event.
Event Code 6000qwdi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qwdi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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