A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:18:22 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 159.1974 East, latitude 52.8486 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qxeh. Unique identifier: us7000qxeh. Global time and date of event 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 17:18:22 / September 19, 2025 @ 5:18 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Close country/countries, Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (c. 187 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yelizovo (c. 40 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Vilyuchinsk (c. 25 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 45 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
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