Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 72.146 km (45 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 159.6837° East, 52.938° North, depth 72.146 km. Id of earthquake: us7000qx5q. Event ids that are associated: us7000qx5q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 00:25:17 / September 19, 2025 @ 12:25 am. The temblor was detected at 00:25:17 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 72 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	159.6837° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.938° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72.146 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 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 00:25:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-19 00:40:13	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	385	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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us7000qx5q	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qx5q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qx5q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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