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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 51.9753S, 160.6292WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 182 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (113 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/25 / 2025-08-03 19:27:09 / August 3, 2025 @ 7:27 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000qxxr. Event ids that are associated: us6000qxxr. The temblor was picked up at 19:27:09 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 160.6292° East, 51.9753° North, depth 12.578 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.578 km (8 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 182 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.6292° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.578 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182 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 2025-08-03 19:27:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-03 19:44:17 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 81 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000qxxr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qxxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qxxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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