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Major earthquake, 7.4 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

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A major earthquake with magnitude 7.4 (ml/mb) was reported 111 kilometers (69 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 02:37:54 / September 13, 2025 @ 2:37 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.465 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pt25256000, at00t2i9z8, us7000qvw5. Unique identifier: us7000qvw5. The temblor was detected at 02:37:54 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 39.465 km, 160.2938° East, 53.1043° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 110 km (68 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 111 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia Vilyuchinsk Yelizovo

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.2938° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.1043° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.465 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	111 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	2025-09-13 02:37:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-13 02:56:26	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	1	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	842	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	,pt,at,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	104	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.995	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qvw5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qvw5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25256000,at00t2i9z8,us7000qvw5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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