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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.5157S, 160.1899WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 115 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (71 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000qx2w. Event ids that are associated: us7000qx2w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 19:38:02 / September 18, 2025 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.881 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:38:02 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 160.1899 East, latitude 53.5157 North, depth = 52.881 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 115 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.1899° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.5157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.881 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115 km ENE 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 19:38:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-18 19:58:23 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us7000qx2w Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx2w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx2w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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