A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Exact location of event, depth 45.227 km, 159.7378° East, 52.7109° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/25 / 2025-08-13 17:02:54 / August 13, 2025 @ 5:02 pm. Event id: us7000qu82. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qu82. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.227 km (28 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:02:54 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days nine hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 84 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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