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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 123 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia


Earthquake location 53.197S, 160.4633WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 123 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (76 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 160.4633 East, latitude 53.197 North, depth = 59.366 km. Id of earthquake: us7000qvxp. Event ids that are associated: us7000qvxp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 59.366 km (37 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:22:28 / 6:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 06:22:28 / September 13, 2025 @ 6:22 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 123 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.4633° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.366 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 06:22:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-13 06:34:46 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 400 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us7000qvxp Id of event.
Event Code 7000qvxp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qvxp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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