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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Khadyzhensk in Russia


Earthquake location 44.3185S, 39.5629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Khadyzhensk in Russia. The temblor was detected at 16:55:45 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us7000qv13. Unique identifier: us7000qv13. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/25 / 2025-09-09 16:55:45 / September 9, 2025 @ 4:55 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.03 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 39.5629 East, latitude 44.3185 North, depth = 9.03 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Krasnodar, Khosta, Severskaya. Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Krasnodar (c. 649 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sochi (c. 327 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Maykop (c. 158 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tuapse (c. 64 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Belorechensk (c. 54 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Pashkovskiy (c. 43 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 12 km S of Khadyzhensk, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.5629° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km S of Khadyzhensk, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-09 16:55:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-09 21:56:59 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 298 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 110 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 19 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qv13 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qv13 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qv13, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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