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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.5916S, 160.259WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 121 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (75 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us6000r10m. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r10m. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.259 East, latitude 52.5916 North, depth = 35 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:51:59 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 00:51:59 / July 30, 2025 @ 12:51 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and twenty-nine, in the last 10 days seven hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 121 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121 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 2025-07-30 00:51:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-18 22:58:15 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 432 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us6000r10m Id of event.
Event Code 6000r10m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r10m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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