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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 53.0496S, 160.3602WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 116 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (72 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 19:11:50 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxah. Id of event: us7000qxah. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 19:11:50 / September 18, 2025 @ 7:11 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.3602 East, latitude 53.0496 North, depth = 35 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 116 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.3602° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.0496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 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 19:11:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-19 12:55:09 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000qxah Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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