Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.6721S, 161.1412WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 180 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (112 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/25 / 2025-08-21 18:57:22 / August 21, 2025 @ 6:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.701 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000r2tt. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000r2tt. The temblor was detected at 18:57:22 / 6:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 161.1412 East, latitude 53.6721 North, depth = 34.701 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel the quake?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 180 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.1412° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.701 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 180 km ENE 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 2025-08-21 18:57:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-21 19:45:51 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us6000r2tt Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2tt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2tt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today