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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8841S, 160.6741WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 138 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (86 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 21:37:53 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qx4q. Id of event: us7000qx4q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 160.6741 East, latitude 52.8841 North, depth = 30.442 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 21:37:53 / September 18, 2025 @ 9:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.442 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 138 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.6741° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.442 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138 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 21:37:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-18 22:03:54 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 500 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us7000qx4q Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx4q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx4q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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