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

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/25 / 2025-08-08 19:58:30 / August 8, 2025 @ 7:58 pm. Event id: us6000qz82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qz82. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:30 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 58.857 km (37 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 159.8818° East, latitude 52.9367° North, depth = 58.857 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 85 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.8818° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.9367° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58.857 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85 km E 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	2025-08-08 19:58:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-08 20:14:51	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.75	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us6000qz82	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qz82	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qz82,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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