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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.7379S, 159.3094WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:49:39 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2kl. Id of event: us6000r2kl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.6 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 159.3094 East, latitude 52.7379 North, depth = 65.6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/08/25 / 2025-08-20 19:49:39 / August 20, 2025 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.3094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.7379° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2025-08-20 19:49:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-20 20:17:24 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 326 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 115 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us6000r2kl Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2kl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2kl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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