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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.3318S, 160.2598WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 137 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (85 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:40:54 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/08/25 / 2025-08-09 09:40:54 / August 9, 2025 @ 9:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qzg3. Event ids that are associated: us6000qzg3. Exact location of earthquake, 160.2598° East, 52.3318° North, depth 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 137 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.2598° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137 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 2025-08-09 09:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-09 09:57:44 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us6000qzg3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qzg3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qzg3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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