A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/25 / 2025-08-17 03:32:41 / August 17, 2025 @ 3:32 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 72.483 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 158.9557 East, latitude 52.7402 North, depth = 72.483 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:32:41 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000r1nw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r1nw.
Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 42 km SSE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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