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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.4257S, 160.934WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 171 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (106 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.349 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000r2h0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2h0. The temblor was picked up at 14:46:21 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.934 East, latitude 52.4257 North, depth = 24.349 km. Global time and date of event 31/07/25 / 2025-07-31 14:46:21 / July 31, 2025 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and fourty-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 171 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.934° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.349 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171 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 2025-07-31 14:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-23 16:50:39 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 284 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 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 us6000r2h0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000r2h0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000r2h0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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