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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 151 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 52.144S, 160.281WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 151 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (94 miles) on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qyan. Id of event: us6000qyan. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 160.281° East, 52.144° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/25 / 2025-07-21 13:47:54 / July 21, 2025 @ 1:47 pm. The temblor was reported at 13:47:54 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and thirty-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 151 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.281° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151 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 2025-07-21 13:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 14:47:39 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 298 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us6000qyan Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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