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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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Earthquake location 52.3724S, 160.6238WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 155 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (96 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/25 / 2025-08-03 21:43:57 / August 3, 2025 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.581 km (13 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:43:57 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.6238 East, latitude 52.3724 North, depth = 20.581 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qr4c. Id of event: us7000qr4c.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days nine hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 155 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.6238° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3724° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.581 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155 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 2025-08-03 21:43:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-26 21:09:54 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 340 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 1.367 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 153 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 us7000qr4c Id of event.
Event Code 7000qr4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qr4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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