A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. The temblor was reported at 20:55:20 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/08/25 / 2025-08-22 20:55:20 / August 22, 2025 @ 8:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.032 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 56.032 km, 159.6073° East, 52.8438° North. Unique identifier: us7000qwqy. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qwqy.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 70 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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