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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8242S, 159.4674WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:25:20 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000qvhw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qvhw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.524 km (38 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 159.4674° East, 52.8242° North, depth 60.524 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/25 / 2025-08-18 15:25:20 / August 18, 2025 @ 3:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.4674° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.524 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km ESE 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 2025-08-18 15:25:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-11 18:53:08 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 259 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us7000qvhw Id of event.
Event Code 7000qvhw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qvhw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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