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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8466S, 161.1368WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 170 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (106 miles). Global time and date of event 30/07/25 / 2025-07-30 20:03:17 / July 30, 2025 @ 8:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000r1g3. Event ids that are associated: us6000r1g3. The temblor was reported at 20:03:17 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.918 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 161.1368 East, latitude 52.8466 North, depth = 22.918 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and one, in the past 30 days six hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty 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: 170 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.918 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170 km E 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 20:03:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-20 17:18:35 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 354 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.863 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 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 us6000r1g3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r1g3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r1g3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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