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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.9089S, 160.8597WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 150 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (93 miles). Exact location, longitude 160.8597° East, latitude 52.9089° North, depth = 25.026 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.026 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 22:10:18 / September 18, 2025 @ 10:10 pm. Unique identifier: us7000qx4y. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qx4y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:10:18 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 150 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.8597° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9089° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.026 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 150 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 2025-09-18 22:10:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-18 22:25:33 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 369 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us7000qx4y Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx4y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx4y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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