A major earthquake with magnitude 7.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 145 kilometers (90 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Event id: at00t2ssp5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt25261001, at00t2ssp5. 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 earthquake, 160.8° East, 53° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 18:58:17 / September 18, 2025 @ 6:58 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:58:17 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Earthquake epicenter was 144 km (89 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 163 km (101 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 161 km (100 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 145 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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