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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.9321S, 159.4675WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Tuesday. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:49:06 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 159.4675° East, 52.9321° North, depth 69.86 km. Event id: us6000r0qi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r0qi. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 23:49:06 / July 29, 2025 @ 11:49 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.86 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety, in the last 10 days five hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 58 km ESE 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 159.4675° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km ESE 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 2025-07-29 23:49:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-17 22:47:42 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us6000r0qi Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0qi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r0qi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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