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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.8688S, 161.0464WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 163 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (101 miles) on Friday. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:22:36 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 00:22:36 / September 19, 2025 @ 12:22 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 161.0464 East, latitude 52.8688 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000qx5p. Event ids that are associated: us7000qx5p.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ninety-nine 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: 163 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.0464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163 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 2025-09-19 00:22:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-19 00:46:19 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 3.792 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 449 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 89 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us7000qx5p Id of event.
Event Code 7000qx5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qx5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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