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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on August 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.9805S, 160.2649WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 163 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (101 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qqsj. Event ids that are associated: us7000qqsj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:19:15 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.2649 East, latitude 51.9805 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 05:19:15 / August 2, 2025 @ 5:19 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and eighty-one, in the last 10 days seven hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days one thousand and sixty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 163 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.2649° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163 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 2025-08-02 05:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-28 05:55:38 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 271 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us7000qqsj Id of event.
Event Code 7000qqsj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qqsj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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