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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.6641S, 160.7552WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 150 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (93 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/25 / 2025-07-20 06:56:03 / July 20, 2025 @ 6:56 am. The temblor was reported at 06:56:03 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qxca. Id of event: us6000qxca. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 160.7552° East, latitude 52.6641° North, depth = 10 km.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 150 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.7552° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.6641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150 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 06:56:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-02 06:05:10 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 482 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.327 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000qxca Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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