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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia


Earthquake location 52.4528S, 160.0421WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 117 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia (73 miles) on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 160.0421 East, latitude 52.4528 North, depth = 50.131 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:29:24 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000qxs5. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qxs5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.131 km (31 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/09/25 / 2025-09-22 04:29:24 / September 22, 2025 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 117 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 160.0421° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.131 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117 km SE 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 2025-09-22 04:29:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-22 04:57:57 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 354 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us7000qxs5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxs5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxs5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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