A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qsni. Unique identifier: us7000qsni. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.761 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 159.8134° East, latitude 52.7195° North, depth = 65.761 km. The temblor was detected at 23:50:27 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 23:50:27 / August 30, 2025 @ 11:50 pm.
The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
Each 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, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 88 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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