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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, 159.6205° East, 52.9737° North, depth 69.704 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:30:25 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000qvav. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qvav. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 69.704 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/09/25 / 2025-09-10 19:30:25 / September 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm.

The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.6205° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.9737° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.704 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 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	2025-09-10 19:30:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-10 19:56:38	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	385	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	102	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.589	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us7000qvav	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qvav	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qvav,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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