Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 168 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (104 miles). Event id: us7000qxca. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxca. Global time and date of event 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 14:23:37 / September 19, 2025 @ 2:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:23:37 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 160.946° East, 52.4905° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-three, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and fourty-eight 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 168 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	160.946° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.4905° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	168 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 14:23:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-19 14:41:45	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.494	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	us7000qxca	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qxca	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qxca,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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