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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8251S, 160.0341WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 23:10:08 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qx5e. Id of event: us7000qx5e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.563 km (26 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 23:10:08 / September 18, 2025 @ 11:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.0341 East, latitude 52.8251 North, depth = 42.563 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and one and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 98 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.0341° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.563 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 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 2025-09-18 23:10:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-18 23:22:13 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 354 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.861 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us7000qx5e Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx5e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx5e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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