Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.0465 East, latitude 52.8011 North, depth = 63.647 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.647 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:11:55 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qx6w. Event ids that are associated: us7000qx6w. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 03:11:55 / September 19, 2025 @ 3:11 am.

Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Epicenter of the event was 97 km (61 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.0465° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.8011° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.647 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	99 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	2025-09-19 03:11:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-19 03:27:25	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	326	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.875	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	132	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	us7000qx6w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qx6w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qx6w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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