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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia

Posted by admin on September 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.9603S, 161.3886WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 185 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (115 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 06:56:07 / September 20, 2025 @ 6:56 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 161.3886 East, latitude 52.9603 North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:56:07 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qxis. Event ids that are associated: us7000qxis.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 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: 185 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 161.3886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.9603° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 185 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 2025-09-20 06:56:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-20 07:15:30 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 106 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us7000qxis Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxis An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxis, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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