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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 86 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 52.9579S, 159.9085WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/25 / 2025-09-02 23:37:07 / September 2, 2025 @ 11:37 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000qtee. Event ids that are associated: us7000qtee. The temblor was detected at 23:37:07 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 159.9085° East, 52.9579° North, depth 50.032 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50.032 km (31 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.9085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.032 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 km E 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 2025-09-02 23:37:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-03 02:39:11 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.764 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 166 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 us7000qtee Id of event.
Event Code 7000qtee An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qtee, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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